The real-time data solutions company’s objective is to maximize consumer privacy in the face of mixed laws and requirements at federal, state and local levels.
Major ed tech vendor, Illuminate Ed, just become the first company to be stripped of its Student Privacy Pledge ethical data designation following discovery that it didn’t encrypt all student data that it claimed. The Student Privacy Pledge program was created by the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) to recognize and ensure ethical data practice for students. Illuminate Ed has also been referred by the FPF to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and to states’ attorneys general in California and New York for further action.
Just launched in Beta, this new carrier currently available for Android, offers their “Pretty Good Phone Privacy” (PGPP) domestic and international mobile data service that decouples user identity from the way devices connect to networks via cell towers. In this model, the system is designed to be blind and achieves that by assigning users multiple unique identifiers that can be changed over the course of a month, so while a tower might know a number belongs to you, it won’t know which of several you’re currently using. Plans are to... Read More >
Remember the good old days, when lying was considered unacceptable? The folks at Iron Tribe Fitness, a South Carolina gym, are holding Meta to that forgotten standard in a class action suit alleging that Facebook overcharged advertisers as much as $4 billion by using one type of auction bidding process while claiming to use another. Meta blames the error on a “software glitch” that began in 2013 and continued for at least four years.