The province of Ontario announced fines for healthcare providers who violate its Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA). Individuals could be fined up to $50,000, and organizations could pay a maximum of $500,000 for violations. This will be enforced against entities that look to contravene the law, but not in cases of breach or when errors are unintentional.
Colorado’s Attorney General is reminding online ad companies that by July, companies will be expected to honor universal opt-out requests from Colorado residents. This goes along with approval by state officials of the Global Privacy Control tool, which is a mechanism to allow users to quickly and easily, universally opt out.
All those headlines about multi-million privacy fines for Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft imply they should have an impact, but to companies whose annual revenues far exceed many countries’ GDPs, they’re not much. Even worse, Big Tech isn’t obligated to pay on time – unlike what’s expected from their own customers – us.
Customer intelligence platform Acxiom will collaborate with ActionIQ to deliver enhanced customer insights. ActionIQ’s CDP will integrate with Acxiom’s demographic, household, behavioral and preference data and with Acxiom’s RealID identity resolution solution. Acxiom experts will work with clients to customize and streamline ActionIQ.