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Connected device use skyrocketing while cyber-safe behavior is stagnant or worse

Comcast Xfinity, which serves 32 million households, surveyed 1,000 individuals and found that in comparison with their last survey in 2020, the number of connected devices has gone up 25% since before the pandemic and that smart home device shipments are now estimated at $306.3 billion. However, consumers are not practicing cyber-safe behavior. In fact, that significantly decreased since Comcast’s last survey and the report noted that more cyber-safe education is needed.

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Musk aims to be unrivaled strong-arming users, running afoul of laws

December 20, 2022

Plans are reportedly underway at Twitter to get past the niceties of allowing users individual privacy preferences and instead use a single-option “yes” consent pop-up to force users to consent to ad targeting, location data capture, and third-party data brokering. The facts that this: 1) would likely violate laws including GDPR, CPRA, and CCPA, 2) could trigger a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) enforcement action, and 3) would be incompatible with Apple privacy rules, seems to worry new owner Elon Musk not at all.

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Children’s Privacy: NetChoice seeks to invalidate California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC)

December 20, 2022

NetChoice, a tech industry group that includes Amazon, AOL, Google, Meta, and TikTok, has sued to block California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) law, which is set to come into effect in 2024.  California’s AADC is the first privacy-by-design law in the United States and is based on the UK’s AADC.  California AADC would require tech companies to put in place more protections to keep children safe online, including making sites more user-centric and transparent. The law also proposes raising the age threshold above 13 years, which is what the federal... Read More >

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