A new Pew survey has found the pandemic has increased patient willingness to have their data shared among providers, as long as privacy is protected. This included use of biometrics or unique identifiers.
Google announced privacy and security guidelines for its safety section, including that developers must be ready by April with a privacy policy, including 3rd party and 1st party apps. The company also seems to be moving ahead with Privacy Sandbox plans, despite its unpopularity, and has outlined five phases with wind down on support for 3rd party cookies planned to finish “late 2023.”
Spain’s DPA fines Spanish supermarket chain Mercadona €2,520,000 ($2,991,000) for unlawful use of a facial recognition system. The chain was using a system to detect people who had criminal convictions or restraining orders. France’s CNIL fined agribusiness Montsanto €400,000 for GDPR violation for not informing people it was recording their information in a lobbying file.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.