Cost for exploiting 44 million UK names? Great Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) just pegged it at $3.2 billion, a number large enough that Meta might notice. The lawsuit, brought on behalf of the British people who used Facebook from 2015 to 2019, accused the company of violating the 1998 Competition Act with unfair pricing.
Washington State has introduced a bill proposing a single-mechanism opt-out for Do-Not-Track processing of consumer data, plus provisions protecting children’s privacy. This comes as the state governor announced the creation of an Office of Privacy and Data Protection.
Surveying one thousand US consumers about use of online data, privacy, VR, smart appliances, mobile devices and digital services; the company found more concerned about use of data and fewer willing to share data with health trackers and smart appliances.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.