The Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA) has been signed, making Utah the fourth state, following California, Virginia and Colorado, to have its own privacy law. The law is considered more business-friendly than predecessors and sets a new precedent by having a two-step process to implement enforcement. While it does provide consumers the right to access their data and to opt out of sales (narrowly defined) and targeted advertising, it does not provide private right of action or require prior consent for collection of sensitive data.

With Apple 15.2, customers have access to the Record App Activity tool, and with that they can check what a given app is doing. Surprisingly, despite the fact that Apple’s settings can deny permission for app tracking connections, URLgenius’s survey of 200 popular apps across 20 niche categories using the Record App Activity recorder found that even when permission denied, they made an average 15 potential connections with 80% to third party domains.