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The platform allows location data owners to sell access to their data for analytics and apps, without violating individual privacy.

This provides security for ensuring brand reputation and facilitates crisis management.

Checks analyzes an apps data collection and sharing behavior and flags privacy and compliance issues within the apps.

The lawsuit, dating back to 2012, alleged that Facebook had used cookies, plug-ins, and the ability to track logged-out users to collect mass amounts of data to sell to advertisers. If the settlement is accepted, the company will also have to delete all the information it had collected within the parameters of the suit.

Despite numerous lawsuits, Clearview AI intends massive expansion to move beyond scanning faces for law enforcement, including use of new technologies to monitor “gig economy” workers.

Oman announced passage of a Data Protection Law that is designed to bring the country’s data privacy regime into closer alignment with global data protection laws. Provisions include the rights to consent, rectification, access, and erasure of personal data. The law will go into effect February 2023 and includes hefty fines for companies and individuals that are not in compliance.

The Axway survey shows differences in sentiment between regions, but key takeaways are: 1) consumers (90%) want to know what data is collected on them; and 2) individuals (85%) want to bock mobile apps from collecting data without consent. Problem is, only 32% of respondents think they know where their data is stored, and 82% worry it may not be secure.

WW International (formerly Weight Watchers) and its subsidiary, Kurbo will pay a $1.5 million settlement after being charged by the US Federal Trade Commission with violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). They also have to delete information they collected, and change the models and algorithms that collected it.

The suit claims Meta’s Facebook violated Texas’ Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier (CUBI) Act.

Now in beta, the expectation is to roll out the new feature by late 2022.

The data protection company’s platform enables enterprises to build applications with native resistance to data compromise, through encrypted data processing.

The use of Google Analytics for data transfer to the US has been deemed a violation of European privacy law. CNIL, the French regulator, reached the decision that it posed a risk to French citizens because transferred data can be accessed by US intelligence agencies.