Privacy

A more connected world brings opportunities for partnerships and increased personalization, but more customer data also highlights the need for increased data security. As cybersecurity threats increase, more consumers are concerned about who has their data and how it is used. New regulations have been put in place around the…

South Africa finally has data protection legislation! Although the right to privacy has been enshrined as a fundamental right in the Bill of Rights since 1996, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy Joseph Cannataci said in March South Africa is “about 30 years behind” in implementing its…

LONDON (AP) — British regulators want new rules to foster competition in digital advertising markets and rein in the industry’s dominant players, Google and Facebook. The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at the U.S. tech giants in a report Wednesday that recommends the British government adopt a new regulatory…

(Bloomberg) — India banned ByteDance Ltd.’s viral short-video service TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps, citing threats to its sovereignty and security as relations between the world’s two largest populations worsened. The unprecedented moratorium, announced days after border tensions in the Himalayas left 20 Indian soldiers dead, deals a blow…

Thank you to Cristina Onosé, Sarah Nasrullah and Haley Fine for your assistance in developing this article and support.  Executive Summary The renegotiated North-American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA 2.0, will have a significant impact on companies. The fundamental concept in the United States, Mexico and Canada Agreement is the…

Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies House of Lords London SW1A 0PW 6 January 2020 Evidence regarding “real-time bidding” I represent Brave, the private web browser. Brave’s CEO invented JavaScript, and co-founded Firefox. Brave is headquartered in San Francisco, and has an office in London. 1. Real-time bidding causes…

On June 12, 2020, the day before the Québec National Assembly adjourned until September 2020, the Government of Québec introduced Bill 64, An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information. The proposal would bring significant changes to Québec private sector and public sector privacy law.…

Google’s push to become a privacy-positive company over the past year has been, depending on how you look at it, an act of genuine benevolence, a brilliant marketing decision, or straight-up bullshit. So when Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the company’s latest moves in the privacy-protecting space on Twitter yesterday,…

Facebook Inc. suffered a setback in a key challenge to its business model as Germany’s highest civil court said that it has “no doubt” that the social network misuses its dominant market position. Judges at a hearing on Tuesday ruled that Facebook must comply with a strict order curbing the…

Every day, the world produces 2.5 quintillion bytes of data – a near-unfathomable number that is only expected to increase as digital transformation takes hold across the globe. This vast trove of data presents a keen opportunity for companies looking to learn more about their customers, and it’s this focus…