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While not final, a draft from California’s Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) indicates what CPRA businesses should prepare for. Rules include a requirement to honor global opt-out requests,  clarification of language when choices are given, consumer notification of third-party collection and information handling, consumer rights to limit use of sensitive information, and having hyperlinks guide consumers directly to applicable areas of privacy policies for transparency and ease-of-use. 

Switzerland is under pressure from the UN to change long-standing bank secrecy laws and allow its Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) access to bank accounts considered a security risk. This follows a February Credit Suisse data leak, which showed criminals & human rights abusers were using bank services there. The UN says the country’s Article 47, which allows jailing or fining whistleblowers for revealing secret bank data, is in violation of human rights agreements Switzerland has signed.

With a $5 million grant in hand from the Craig Newmark (Craigslist founder) Philanthropies, Consumer Reports plans to give consumers tools they need to gird against cyber threats – and to advocate for the same from business and government. This is part of a much larger initiative by the charity to build civic infrastructure and policy frameworks.

A program designed to curb youth violence and curtail gang activity is proving controversial for London’s Metropolitan police. Project Alpha, which is funded by the Home Office, has claimed it consulted with a range of youth organizations before launching its initiative to monitor social media favored by youth for warning signs of threats. But several of the organizations listed as being contacted for consultation have said they had never been formally approached and questions have been raised about whether racial profiling of teens has taken place.

Thanks to its recent acquisition of Electriq Marketing, DRINKS will now provide at-home alcohol delivery with full regulatory compliance.

CTARS, the cloud-based system used for out-of-home care service, has raised concerns on behalf of individuals because it won’t release information on whose data was compromised, citing privacy reasons.

Pending federal court approval in the US, Twitter will have to pay up for deceiving users about how it used contact data ostensibly collected for “account-security purposes,” when in fact, the government alleges the data was also used for ad targeting.

Seems the wrong way around, yet in another strange-but-true episode of, “You Bet Your Privacy,” 40+ Democratic lawmakers appealed to a scion of Big Tech to take up the defense of women nationwide, should Roe be overturned. Fearing women can become geo-located targets of right-wing prosecutors, the ask is for CEO Sundar Pichai to preemptively shed, then not collect location data to keep hunters off the scent. How Did We Get Here?

British Columbia introduces Anti-Racism Data Act, the first in North America to collect data as a “tool of care” for human rights. It gives the Canadian province limited rights to collect select demographic data to be used to identify and look to eliminate systematic racism. It includes provision for the creation of an anti-racism data committee to be appointed this summer which will work with Indigenous groups, people of color, and racialized communities. Individuals will have the choice of whether they want to have their demographic data used and won’t be denied services if they decline.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), isn’t considered a surveillance arm of the government, but it does have access to a vast trove of data via the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and utility companies that provide heat, water and electricity. A new study has found that data it collects from those organizations and a couple others, adds up to it having data on 1 in 3 adults via license photos, 3 in 4 adults via license data, and 3 in 4 adults via utility records. Concern is that ICE... Read More >

Kudos to Morocco, the one government found not to endorse an EdTech product that risks or undermines children’s rights. Other of the world’s most populous countries – not so much! In fact, alarming findings from the Human Rights Watch report, “How Dare They Peep into My Private Life?,” indicate it’s been open season on surveilling children worldwide, thanks to edtech use of tracking technologies capable of monitoring children in- and outside virtual classrooms across the Internet over time. Think that’s not so bad? Remember that can provide access to the rest... Read More >

Four privacy commissioners from around the country are expected to rule soon on findings. The company has 4.3 million active users per month on its app, second only to Amazon in Canada.