France’s Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL) found Microsoft Ireland in violation of its privacy laws because the Bing search engine deployed ad cookies on user browsers without consent. The €60 million fine was based on ad profits Microsoft was determined to have generated from the data collection.
In one of the highest privacy suit settlements anywhere, Meta has agreed to settle the famed Cambridge Analytica suit which in 2018 revealed Facebook was allowing third parties to access user data – and the Cambridge Analytica consulting firm had helped itself to up to 87 million user records. Now, Meta, in agreeing to $725 million to settle the class action, will have the dubious honor of being #1 for a US privacy payout – and one of the top (see below) globally for GDPR.
On January 1, California added niche privacy protections for groups identified as needing special protections. These include: 1) The Student Test Taker Privacy Act which prohibits collecting and using student information unless it can be proven strictly necessary; 2) Assembly Bill 2089 which specifies information collected by mental health apps must be used only if necessary for health care; and 3) Senate Bill 1228 to protect sexual assault victims from having their DNA information available, except when there is an active police investigation.
RudderStack, which styles itself “the AI Data Cloud Native CDP”, has unveiled a suite of Data Apps running on its Customer 360 solution, which in turn runs within Snowflake AI Data Cloud. The apps support the fast delivery of data projects — for example, attribution data and propensity scores — from data teams to business stakeholders. They are now available to Enterprise Tier RudderStack customers on Snowflake.