Washington State has introduced a bill proposing a single-mechanism opt-out for Do-Not-Track processing of consumer data, plus provisions protecting children’s privacy. This comes as the state governor announced the creation of an Office of Privacy and Data Protection.
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The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), which monitors the use of data by EU institutions and agencies has directed Europol to delete data that is not tied to investigations.
Cost for exploiting 44 million UK names? Great Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) just pegged it at $3.2 billion, a number large enough that Meta might notice. The lawsuit, brought on behalf of the British people who used Facebook from 2015 to 2019, accused the company of violating the 1998 Competition Act with unfair pricing.
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.