IT’S THE LAW (9/1/2020)
New Zealand’s 2020 Privacy Act goes into effect December 1. A key provision is the requirement for mandatory notification of harmful privacy breaches and a $10,000 fine for violation.
New Zealand’s 2020 Privacy Act goes into effect December 1. A key provision is the requirement for mandatory notification of harmful privacy breaches and a $10,000 fine for violation.
InfoSum has technology that lets companies analyze data on shared customers without sharing the data itself. It uses Bloom filters, a term you can casually drop the next time you’re trying to impress a privacy geek. The rest of us may be impressed that they just raised $15 million to complete their Series A.
Berbix, a start-up by former Airbnb trust and safety team members, announced it raised $9 million Series A funding. The platform exposes fraud via granular ID flags and prompts end-users to validate their IDs. The ID-verification-as-a-service market is anticipated to grow to between $16-20B by 2022, according to McKinsey.
If robots wrote the news, would they write about other robots? I ask because there’s been a suspicious burst of items about AI-powered writing tools, just when live journalists might have set things on autopilot so they could sneak out early for the holiday. Top of the list: writing-suggestion platform Grammarly just raised $200 million at a $13 billion valuation, doubling total funding to $400 million.