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Google’s shareholders have won a settlement of $350 million brought against the company for a breach of Google+ data that occurred between 2015-2018, and which had allowed outside developers access to the personal data of hundreds of thousands of Google+ users. Google+ shut down in 2019.

Mozilla Monitor’s new Plus subscription service now allows its more than 10 million users to run automatic scans of 190 data broker sites to check if personal information has been leaked. If so, the system provides tools to make the information private again. Subscribers can also take back their exposed data, so the brokers can’t sell it.

Oman is adding new privacy regulations. These include the requirement to obtain a permit before processing personal data, new procedures for handling data breaches, more stringent rules for managing children’s data, and increasing controls with regard to data controllers and processors.

Zero-party data, a.k.a. the data consumers give you by choice, can out-perform first-party data in garnering consumer trust, according to the Zero Party Data Revolution report from survey company, Attest. Consumers are increasingly weary of sharing data and distrustful of brands, with 85% reporting they sometimes opt-out of being added to mailing lists, and 58% doing so habitually. When it comes to sharing via first-party data collection with permission, the report says there’s variation by age category, and particular segment websites have significant opt-outs, including social media sites (47%), travel... Read More >

Datatilsynet, Denmark’s data protection agency, has ordered 53 municipalities throughout the country to change their data processing process to stop transferring student data to Google unless there’s a legal basis. Data of primary students which had been sent to Google previously had been used for commercial purposes in violation of Denmark’s and GDPR’s privacy laws.

Apple has not confirmed this, but officials in Beijing claim they can access information including email addresses and phone numbers. Security researchers have also claimed the encryption codes Apple uses for AirDrop aren’t sufficiently secure.