How confident are consumers that information they share will be protected? Not very, but a new survey from insights platform vendor, DISQO, indicates trust levels are up since January. Social media is least trusted with 41% and financial institutions are most at 73%.
Clothing retailer, H&M is accused of collecting data on the private lives of employees in Germany according to Hamburg’s data protection commissioner. The personal data, which included information on family issues and religious beliefs, was recorded on a call center’s network drive accessible to up to 50 managers, and reportedly used to obtain a detailed profile of the employees for potential decisions related to employment.
NIST issues challenge with cash prizes to protect public safety PII The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched the Differential Privacy Temporal Map Challenge drawing on crowd sourcing to find new ways to protect data from public safety datasets (gathered to issue weather warnings, food recalls, or manage other emergency health needs).
In a follow-up to their January report, the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority raised the number of concerns they have with Privacy Sandbox to 79. Among other issues, they adopted the privacy concerns raised by another U.K. regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office. Google’s recent decision to shift third-party cookie deprecation to next year might mean they saw this coming.