“Never mind privacy,” is the message many think Mexico’s new government is giving as it moves to eliminate the INAI – the National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data.
The plan to redistribute the agency’s responsibilities among other government agencies is a concern because it’s unclear how data will be protected and kept impartial.
Amazon’s Twitch was hit with a 1.75 million lira (US $58,000) fine by Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) for inadequate security that resulted in a data breach, and for subsequently not reporting that breach.
Software company Privado’s State of Website Privacy Report’s 2024 survey found this to be a problem in the US and abroad. Results showed as high as 76% of the 100 most-visited US websites and a similar number in the UK and Europe, do not honor global privacy control (GPC) or opt-out consent requests. While this is often due to system issues and is inadvertent, the fact remains that the companies are not compliant and that’s a big legal risk.
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.