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Google has begun its roll out of privacy-focused API’s with the goal of phasing out third-party cookies by Q3 2024. Google intends to enable APIs for around 35% of browsers now and will scale to 60% over the next month. Shipping these APIs is a major step toward Google’s goal of phasing out third-party cookies entirely.

OneTrust has announced a $150 million investment led by Generation Investment Management, bringing its total funds to date to more than $1 billion for a $4.5 billion valuation. The funding will be used to accelerate platform innovation in areas including privacy, security, ethics and ESG. OneTrust was named #1 for the fourth year in a row by IDC’s Worldwide Data Privacy Compliance Software Market Shares.

Governors in Maine and Connecticut signed legislation to protect women’s rights. In Maine, this includes the right to have an abortion, protection for healthcare providers, and preventing the enactment of ordinances in conflict with Maine’s Reproductive Privacy Act. In Connecticut, laws protect medical providers from out-of-state legal actions and pharmacists to allow prescribing birth control. Another ensures patient health data privacy. Read More – Maine Read More – Connecticut

Womble Bond’s second annual survey asked more than 200 business leaders about top privacy concerns and found only 50% of organizations feel very prepared to address the many privacy laws in a fast-changing global landscape. Only 34% report having conducted data mapping and having a clear understanding of data practices at their company.

The civil suit alleged Amazon violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA) law and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act because it collected children’s voice-print data via its Alexa voice assistant service and Alexa’s child-directed offerings. The claim was that Amazon was retaining children’s recordings indefinitely, rather than adhering to COPPA rules that they be kept only as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill its business services.

Now available to 160 million people, the company is also rolling out a visual search feature in chat.

This is in addition to California’s landmark consumer protection law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and is designed to protect personal information of employees, job applicants, and independent contractors.

Norway seems a bit fed up with Meta’s ad targeting behavior, so its regulator, Datatilsynet, imposed a fine of kr1M ($100,000)/day that will begin early August and run into November, unless the Meta remediates it. The regulator also referred it to European Data Protection Board, which could make the fine permanent and/or widen its territorial scope.

The Sh10 billion (US$4M) lawsuit was brought by a Tanzanian businessman who wants compensation for his loss of privacy, which included personal details on calls, SIM information and location data. Vodacom has refuted the accusations.

The US International Trade Commission has a new website to help US companies with transferring data from Europe and the European Economic Area, the UK, Gibraltar and Switzerland. This follows the agreement on the Data Privacy Framework principles for commerce, which have just come into effect, though personal data may not be received until individual dates of adequacy are recognized. However, companies can begin to self-certify their compliance on the site.

Consumers are evolving their trust in generative AI, according to a report from The Kearney Consumer Research Institute (KCI), which found 50% of consumers surveyed had tried AI, but 44% said they don’t usually trust it. Those from the US, UK and France were more concerned about loss of human contact, while others from Germany, India and China focused more on data privacy risk. So, while AI can’t be the sole solution to target and engage with consumers, people are receptive to having it augment human interaction.

Security industry group IPVM claims the photos are from Hikvision cameras that were hacked, though the company forcefully denied knowing about it. Telegram has since taken down channels, but this is part of ongoing concern over how Telegram monitors its content.