Privacy Affairs’ GDPR Tracker provides a country-by-country breakdown of fines levied since the law’s inception in May 2018. Italy, France, Germany and the UK had the highest total fines, while more (22) were levied against companies in Spain than anywhere else.
Complying with the regulator’s order to recheck ages of all its Italian users, the company identified more than 500K who were either confirmed younger than 13 or were determined likely to be under 16.
The “Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act” has been introduced in U.S. Senate. The bipartisan bill aims to create a ‘Digital Marketing Bill of Rights for Minors,’ updating the country’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) with changes including: 1) prohibiting internet companies from collecting personal information from anyone 13- to 15-years old; 2) creating a user ‘Erasure Button’ to excise personal information; and 3) establish a new office, the ‘Youth Privacy and Marketing Division’ at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.