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Archive for January, 2024

Categories : CDPI Privacy Newsletter
Dates : January 2024

ChatGPT called out again by Italy for breaching GDPR

January 30, 2024
Italy’s Data Protection Authority (DPA) announced it found evidence of data privacy violations by OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT due to mass collection of data used to train the algorithm. OpenAI has 30 days to respond in its defense. The stakes are high, since fines for companies that break GDPR rules can be up to 4% of the company’s global turnover. This follows an earlier ban of ChatGPT in Italy last spring, which was subsequently lifted.
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IT’S THE LAW (01/30/2024)

January 30, 2024
The New Hampshire Privacy Act (NHPA) has been approved and sent to the governor for signature. The NHPA applies to any business or person that produces products or services for residents of the state, or controls data on New Hampshire consumers. As with other states, minimums apply and there are some exemptions. Consumer rights provided include confirmation of processing, correction, deletion, opt-out rights, and the right to reject  behavioral ad-targeting.
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Privacy – a business imperative best provided with proof

January 30, 2024
Cisco’s Privacy Research’s seventh annual survey of 2,600 professionals found 94% of organizations say their customers would not buy from them if they didn’t provide adequate privacy protection. Respondents also said customers like hard evidence organizations can be trusted – such as in the form of external certifications, so 98% consider those important in their buying process. Organizations also support global privacy laws, with 80% indicating legislation has had a positive impact.
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Thousands of companies monitor you for Facebook & feed them your stats

January 23, 2024
Good if you said yes above, since Consumer Reports found as many as 7,000 companies, including LiveRamp, Acxiom, Epsilon, Home Depot and Amazon, are monitoring activities of individual Facebook users.  This to help Meta understand what you do when you’re not on the their platform – and to enable them to target you with ads. Out of more than 700 participants who volunteered to have their data looked at, on average each had their data sent to Facebook by more than 2,200 companies.
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Need for privacy expertise way up, but budgets headed down in 2024

January 23, 2024
ISACA, a global association focused on security, governance, risk and privacy education surveyed more than 1,300 data privacy professionals on how their company was handling staffing and support for privacy. Key findings were that demand for technical roles is likely to increase, board prioritization of privacy is expected to hold steady, though more than half surveyed expected privacy budgets to decrease this year. Also consistent with last year is expert-level privacy professionals are the most difficult to hire.
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Children’s Privacy: Too big to care, Meta?

January 23, 2024
Meta’s big. Kids are small, powerless, and okay to take advantage of, seems to be a foundational way of thinking at Meta from CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the top down through the ranks if new reports are to be believed. Redacted historical documents just unsealed in a New Mexico lawsuit showed that young users were being marketed to intentionally and inappropriately – and, much worse, that people at Meta knew there was a massive volume of sexually explicit content being shared between adults and young people, but repeated warnings and... Read More >
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