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The International digital rights group, Access Now and Ethiopia’s Centre for Advancement of Rights and Democracy slammed the bank publicly which resulted in the bank taking down names of customers – though it did claim it had recouped almost all its funds prior to that point.

Responding to concern voiced by privacy advocates and customers, Microsoft says its forthcoming Recall feature for Copilot+ PCs will be turned off by default and will require users to use Windows Hello to enable it. Recall will also now have additional layers of protection and encryption.

The IAB Tech Lab, which brought you the Global Privacy Platform, the Accountability Platform, and the Privacy Taxonomy project has just released its Data Deletion Request Framework to provide guidance and insights into how to best handle data deletion requests and to convey those.

Privacy laws of Texas, Oregon and Florida come into effect July 1. Texas has just announced it will establish a dedicated enforcement team to operate within its Consumer Protection Division to enforce the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, a law that unlike many other states doesn’t set a volume threshold for law applicability. The Oregon Consumer Privacy Act is distinct in that it defines sensitive data to include revealing status as transgender, or nonbinary; or status as a victim of a crime. Florida’s Digital Bill of Rights applies only... Read More >

The data set LAION-5B has been used to scrape the internet and train popular AI tools. Human Rights Watch research has found this includes links to photos of Brazilian children that are identifiable, sometimes including the child’s name, or makes it easily traceable. It also can include when and where the child was when the photo was taken.

It’s a distinct possibility. That’s because behaviors you thought were known only to you (ie. how often you hit the brakes, speed, or check your phone) can be tracked, collected and shared. Some insurers are using the driver profiles to determine rates.

Some home insurers are using drone footage to reassess whether they want to continue the home insurance. In fact, even homeowners with longtime policies have been turned down because of what drone photos showed in terms of house condition or property usage – problem is the photos aren’t always clear.

Opting out can be tough, or in some cases not possible depending on data privacy laws.

Check out MarTech’s Marketers Guide to State Data Privacy Laws.

The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) is suspending two products, “Election Day Information” (EDI) and “Voter Information Unit” (VIU) that Meta planned to introduce. These would have collected more detailed data on individuals to create complex, detailed profiles.

With 80% of US ticket market share, Ticketmaster has a user base of 560 million and a massive database of 1.3 terabytes. This contains information on ticket purchases, event details, and user billing information and other sensitive data. Now, Ticketmaster, scarily, has been breached and its data is for sale on the dark web.