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The drug discount company GoodRX proposed $25 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for having allegedly shared consumer data with Meta, Google and Criteo without consumer consent.

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.

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.

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 >

TikTok, Reddit and Instagram are among the the latest to come under fire from Texas’ attorney general. The state regulator is looking at whether they’ve violated two laws, the Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment Act and the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, which restrict how kids’ data can be used and to guard against publication of harmful content.

Thirty-two US attorneys general (19 Republican and 13 Democrats) are acting in concert to push for passage of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). They jointly sent a letter to Congress calling for the federal government to expedite passage of the new legislation to both protect children and to supplement efforts of individual states.