CDP Institute

Responding to customer demand for faster on-boarding, improved data access controls, enhanced data tagging, and automated encryption and decryption.

A massive violation of rights, if true.

Gartner projects six-fold jump in data privacy regs by 2023 A major headline from Gartner’s recent Security & Risk Management Summit was the prediction that data privacy regulation would grow from the current 10% of countries globally to 65% by 2023. In anticipation, Gartner is advising security and risk management leaders to be proactive.

One to watch: China has drafted a comprehensive Data Security Law, linking data protection to national security. Speculation is it could come into effect by early next year and, if the language stays the same, it would have significant impact on international companies.

Citing the need to be able to decrypt information for national security and use in law enforcement to fight crime and protect vulnerable parts of the population; the Five Eyes Alliance -the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand along with India and Japan issued a statement appealing for embedded safeguards to access data. This follows similar appeals to the Tech Industry from Five Eyes in 2018 and 2019.

The 2018 breach penalty has been reduced from £184M to £20M.

Goal is to expedite CCPA “Do Not Sell” privacy requests.

The company is accused of having Amazon Connect, a part of its Amazon Web Services (AWS), collect and harvest “voiceprint” data, which can identify and authenticate callers by voice. The plaintiff, who are based in Illinois, claim their telephone calls were intercepted and sounds stored without their consent.

IAB Europe pushes back against Belgian DPA assessment IAB Europe has issued a response to last week’s assessment by the Belgian DPA saying they were not in compliance with the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF). TCF was designed to ensure digital ad companies meet GDPR requirements.

An ICO audit found widespread data protection failings including breach risk.

France has a new law to protect “kid influencers.” This extends safeguards already granted to child performers and models to young people, up to age 16, who become celebrities online and on social media. It includes protection against extortion and guarantees the “right to be forgotten.”

Sourcepoint ups the game acquiring RedBud  Intent on becoming the most “fully-featured” privacy, compliance and consent platform, Sourcepoint has acquired Redbud, including its DIAGNOSE scanning and analytics tool.This will give publishers visibility into hidden activities on properties, including from third parties. It also reveals privacy vulnerabilities and ensures media spend is compliant and consumer privacy-focused.