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A survey from the Identity Theft resource Center (TRC) found that while most consumers have been a victim of a data breach, few take strong actions to protect themselves. Less than half (48%) changed the password on a breached account and only 22% changed all their passwords.

The market for smart (also called “connected”) toys is projected to exceed $24B by 2025. It is one of the most prominent categories of IoT and an area of great concern for children’s privacy. It can also be a risk for the family overall. This year’s annual “Trouble in Toyland” report cautioned parents that “in addition to recording children themselves, some (AI-enabled) toys have the ability to record information about your home and family”. Examples include an augmented reality toy that can capture images from around the room where the... Read More >

Apple also is seeking an injunction to ban NSO Group from ever using Apple software and services.

Baffle integrates with Amazon Redshift, AWS Glue, and Amazon Simple Storage Service.

The company’s data platform helps collect customer data in real time and makes it available via data streams for analytics, data science and machine learning.

Amazon, which has amassed a vast amount of sensitive information on customers and whose efforts have gone largely unchecked, has now been shown, via confidential documents reviewed by Reuters, to be running a big lobbying effort used to forestall or gut privacy legislation. The effort, led by a former aid to President Biden, has killed or undermined privacy legislation two dozen states.

TikTok users in the US who used the site before October 1 may be eligible for part of the recently settled $92 million class action. The Illinois suit alleged TikToik shared personal data it had collected from users with third parties without user consent. The company, which denies the claim, agreed to the settlement which applied to approximately 89 million users. Claims by eligible users must be submitted before March 1, 2022.

A US federal law, newly passed as part of the infrastructure  bill, mandates that car makers integrate anti-drunk-driving tech into all new cars within the next three years. Advocates for the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety (DADSS) technology believe the addition of breath-sniffing sensors and finger-scanning detectors will achieve a goal long-sought to prevent drunk driving, while opponents voiced concerns over invasion of privacy.

Tough position to fill, according to multiple sources familiar with a new role at The Trade Desk (TTD), which runs the ad exchange marketers use to select audiences on an ad bidding exchange. This is a key role as the ad industry heads into a new post-cookie world intending to supplant those with a unified, encrypted form of ID compliant with GDPR regulations. Speculation is that overseeing this for digital ad spending, which is projected to hit $91.44 billion in Western Europe by 2025, is a hard job to commit... Read More >

Common Sense Media’s 2021 State of Kids’ privacy report shows privacy protection provided by companies is far below parental expectations and doesn’t meet Common Sense’s minimum privacy threshold. The organization evaluated 200 of the most popular kids tech and edtech applications and services over 5-years and, while overall median scores increased year-over-year by 20%, 74% did not meet Common Sense’s minimum privacy recommendations.

The app helps organizations identify and minimize risk by operationalizing remediation steps and allowing data owners across the organization to collaborate on impact assessments.

This will enable companies to analyze the path programmatic impressions take throughout the sales cycle and will identify points at which ad-fraud may have entered the supply path.