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New Zealand’s 2020 Privacy Act goes into effect December 1. A key provision is the requirement  for mandatory notification of harmful privacy breaches and a $10,000 fine for violation.

Berbix, a start-up by former Airbnb trust and safety team members, announced it raised $9 million Series A funding. The platform exposes fraud via granular ID flags and prompts end-users to validate their IDs. The ID-verification-as-a-service market is anticipated to grow to between $16-20B by 2022, according to McKinsey.

Data Protection Market projected to exceed $119B by 2022 A new MarketWatch survey on data protection spending projected substantial growth spurred by enormous amounts of data collection and increased privacy security concern.  Identity and Access Management (IAM), which includes provisioning, advanced authentication, and password management, is expected to dominate the Data Protection Market (DMP), as is the healthcare industry vertical.

Tracking-Enabled billboards set to launch across Europe Billboards have proven to be an extremely effective form of advertising. Now Clear Channel Outdoor, which operates 500,000 print and digital billboards worldwide, is about to bring personal-tracking billboard tech they’ve used in the U.S. to the EU. Called Radar, this technology uses “anonymous, aggregated outdoor data,” to track where you go after you’ve seen ads and, behaviorally see what you do. Staying indoors here….

Dataguise announced a patent-pending method of projecting unique data counts that enables organizations to report impact of a data breach faster and more accurately to reduce risk.

BigID is a specialist in data discovery. The system applies a particularly robust set of automated tools to examine and classify all types of data – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured; cloud and on-premise; in any language. For identified items, it builds a list showing the application, object name, data type, server, geographic location, and other details.

Consumers are concerned, confused and apprehensive about how businesses use their data, according to the 2020 Consumer Trust and Data Privacy Report released by Privitar. Citing a need for businesses to take a leadership role and build brand loyalty by protecting customers, Privitar’s announcement indicates that nearly half surveyed said they would not share sensitive data; a third said they did not read privacy notices; and as few as 21% said they would be willing share health data for contract tracing purposes because of privacy concerns.

A new privacy feature in Apple’s pending update has online publishers and mobile ad companies worried vast numbers of users will opt to block ads. iOS 14 has a pop-up notifying users when an app wants to track them, and requires their opt-in to allow it.

The New York Times reports that some U.S. schools that don’t want to report COVID-19 data are using HIPPA and FERPA privacy laws as an excuse. Neither law would require withholding such data as long as it didn’t contain personal information, and such a decision would pose a health risk to families and communities.

A new survey by W2O, a leader in healthcare analytics, found that 82% of U.S. consumers feel the government should regulate when and how health information is shared.  Seventy percent believe that companies are currently collecting, storing and saving their health data without their knowledge.