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Google closes Fitbit deal making commitment to protect user privacy and silo data Google has completed its acquisition of Fitbit, which has a community of 29 million active users. The announcement follows a year of negotiation that resulted in Google’s promises to safeguard consumer privacy, keep Fitbit user data separate and to not use the Fitbit data for Google advertising.

Users will not need to log into their Google account to use smart devices, so will not have their activity saved.

Toronto-based Nymi Inc., survey of more than 2,000 U.S. employees found that 77% would welcome using a wearable issued by their employer if it contributed to their health, safety and effectiveness. At the same time, more than half indicated that they would want their data to be kept private, and 44% had concerns that their company might not use their data responsibly.

Philippine President Duterte’s new directive sanctions ISPs for failure to stop proliferation of child pornography during COVID. Incident totals more than doubled from 19,000 in 2019 to 47,937 in 2020.

HERE adds consent manager and anonymizer for location data HERE Technologies, a global location data company with 9,000 employees across 56 countries, has added new digital privacy tools to provide more control and compliance in IoT devices for mapping, geolocation, telecom and retail.

Surfshark recently released the results of a global survey of 150 cities, showing those with the most surveillance cameras per square kilometer. Chennai with 657 and Hyderabad, India top the list. Six Chinese cities are also in the top 10 as is London with 399. Paris has 254, whereas New York City cames in with under 26 per square kilometer. Surfshark projects the global number of CCTVs will hit one billion by the end of 2021.

CNIL says French data privacy rules were breached by police because they did not blur faces of people filmed, and demonstrators could be easily identified.

Accounts for users 13-15 will be private by default and the app will have tighter controls for all users under 18.

Big change to law effective 2023: FAA wants to know your & your drone’s location.

Software safeguards sensitive data, maintains compliance; key in COVID tracking.

Clearview AI sees 26% spike following U.S. Capitol attack Clearview AI, which raised privacy concerns for amassing billions of facial images scraped without consent from social media, is used by some in law enforcement to help identify Capitol rioters quickly.

Facebook and Snapchat stand to lose most from new Apple IDFA changes according to new report MKM Partners research report indicates Facebook may have had good reason for its opposition to Apple’s new Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) rules, and could face a 3%-5% loss.