Womble Bond’s second annual survey asked more than 200 business leaders about top privacy concerns and found only 50% of organizations feel very prepared to address the many privacy laws in a fast-changing global landscape. Only 34% report having conducted data mapping and having a clear understanding of data practices at their company.
Governors in Maine and Connecticut signed legislation to protect women’s rights. In Maine, this includes the right to have an abortion, protection for healthcare providers, and preventing the enactment of ordinances in conflict with Maine’s Reproductive Privacy Act. In Connecticut, laws protect medical providers from out-of-state legal actions and pharmacists to allow prescribing birth control. Another ensures patient health data privacy. Read More – Maine Read More – Connecticut
The civil suit alleged Amazon violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA) law and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act because it collected children’s voice-print data via its Alexa voice assistant service and Alexa’s child-directed offerings. The claim was that Amazon was retaining children’s recordings indefinitely, rather than adhering to COPPA rules that they be kept only as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill its business services.
With CDP vendors increasing their workforces by 3.4% in six months, compared with an average of 0.2% each six months over the prior two years, the sector seems to be growing again, according to our own semi-annual industry update. There is much talk of composable CDPs but they still employ no more than 5% of the sector workforce. What is a clear trend is the acquisition of independent CDPs by vendors interested in adding a CDP to a larger system (usually an activation system).