CDP Institute

California once more! The Attorney General has just released guidance for state law enforcement agencies that it is illegal for police to share data collected from license plates with federal or out-of-state agencies. This protects important personal privacy, including of immigrants, abortion seekers and protesters.

The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) has issued a set of guidelines to help businesses comply with privacy laws as they relate to children in the metaverse. Entitled “Building Guardrails for Child-Directed Advertising & Privacy in the Metaverse” it includes advise on helping kids distinguish content from ads and includes questions for businesses considering entering this area.

a signaling mechanism to enable consumers to more easily exercise their right to have their data discarded – and to help companies comply with deletion requests they received.

The mechanism, developed by privacy advocates, means consumers can do a single setting in privacy settings rather than opting out on a company-by-company basis.