CDP Institute

A survey of 1500 employees taken in March and June 2020 showed users, especially younger users, acting more dangerously online, visiting and returning to sites where their information was stolen or at risk. -29% said they’d continue visiting a website after receiving a browser warning that it was insecure -36% said they’d revisit a website after a hack -37% said their organization does not enforce restrictions on their corporate devices

Clothing retailer, H&M is accused of collecting data on the private lives of employees in Germany according to Hamburg’s data protection commissioner. The personal data, which included information on family issues and religious beliefs, was recorded on a call center’s network drive accessible to up to 50 managers, and reportedly used to obtain a detailed profile of the employees for potential decisions related to employment.

How confident are consumers that information they share will be protected? Not very, but a new survey from insights platform vendor, DISQO, indicates trust levels are up since January. Social media is least trusted with 41% and financial institutions are most at 73%.

NIST issues challenge with cash prizes to protect public safety PII  The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched the Differential Privacy Temporal Map Challenge drawing on crowd sourcing to find new ways to protect data from public safety datasets (gathered to issue weather warnings, food recalls, or manage other emergency health needs).