Two years in, and data privacy’s seismic shift — with California at its epicenter — may upend the way retailers close the deal. As noted Monday, there’s at least some backing and filling as companies draw more of a bead on what they’ll need to...
Can data be harvested … with decency? The California Consumer Privacy Act looms, taking effect at the beginning of 2020. Across the pond, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect in May of 2018. The laws protecting consumer privacy are changing the ways businesses collect...
Facebook is facing accusations from Vietnam that the social media giant did not remove content that it said was “slanderous,” reported Financial Times. Citing a briefing in Hanoi, Vietnam on Tuesday (Jan. 8), Financial Times reported that the country’s Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information...
Not even Santa can escape the limits of the privacy laws in Europe. But don’t worry — there is a happy ending (we don’t want to ruin your festive spirit on today of all days, after all). Okay, that’s an exaggeration (the Santa part), but...
October 25, 2019
Can data be harvested … with decency? The California Consumer Privacy Act looms, taking effect at the beginning of 2020. Across the pond, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect in May of 2018. The laws protecting consumer privacy are changing the ways businesses collect consumers’ data, as they scramble to avoid the impacts and […]
June 06, 2024
Meta’s plans for training its AI have run afoul of a European privacy group. Vienna-based NOYB — the European Center for Digital Rights — said Thursday (June 6) it had filed complaints with 11 European countries, arguing that Meta’s use of user data in its AI proposed AI practices violate the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The group asks […]
January 09, 2019
Facebook is facing accusations from Vietnam that the social media giant did not remove content that it said was “slanderous,” reported Financial Times. Citing a briefing in Hanoi, Vietnam on...
November 23, 2018
Not even Santa can escape the limits of the privacy laws in Europe. But don’t worry — there is a happy ending (we don’t want to ruin your festive spirit...
October 31, 2018
A case involving Google Search could change the way that class-action settlements are paid out, assuming the U.S. Supreme Court comes through with a decision on the matter. The case...
