Peru introduced new data privacy regulation to come into effect in March. Key changes include non-territorial application, providing more data to owners on how their data will be collected and used, expediting breach notification, and working to secure age verification when processing data of minors.
In a move to protect consumers from fraud, stalking and spies, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) wants to limit data brokers’ ability to sell Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information and limit that to instances where it is deemed necessary, such as for obtaining a mortgage. The idea is for brokers to assume the role of “consumer reporting agencies” that must meet accuracy requirements and provide safeguards against data misuse.
It’s easy to glaze over or skip information that companies lay out in their Terms of Service (ToS) and Privacy Policies (PP) – as companies hope and bet that we will. So, it helps that Website Planet took a close look for us in an analysis of 57 major companies ranging from Apple and IBM to Reddit and Tesla to find out how they handle data privacy, children’s data, and payment data and to recommend what we should look for in companies’ privacy trust worthiness. Apple was alone in scoring... Read More >
Changes in marketing channels and data access have made advertising measurement more important, and challenging, than ever. Taking advantage of growing interest in the topic, Bain Capital is selling Kantar Group’s audience measurement division, Kantar Media, to global investment firm H.I.G. Capital for “approximately $1 billion”. Kantar Media accounts for 4,500 of Kantar Group’s 25,000 employees.