Privacy

May 4, 2020 Public consultation on the Personal Information Protection Act begins today VICTORIA – The Legislative Assembly has appointed an all-party special committee to seek input from British Columbians on the effectiveness of the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). The act governs how private sector organizations collect, use, and…

SACRAMENTO – Today, Californians for Consumer Privacy announced that it is submitting well over 900,000 signatures to qualify the California Privacy Rights Act for the November 2020 ballot.  Submission has begun in counties across the state and will continue for several days. “Even as we’ve worked to strengthen privacy laws here…

Businesses investing in their privacy experience pronounced financial benefits, a new Cisco study suggests. According to the paper, entitled ‘Cisco Data Privacy Benchmark Study 2020’, businesses see an average return of 2.7 times on their original investment when they bankroll data privacy practices — confirming for the first time what…

A first-of-its-kind judicial decision sets out the rules for lawful tracking in an epidemic outbreak situation. The Israeli Supreme Court strikes a balance between COVID-19-related contact tracing technology and the right to privacy in a landmark decision about the government’s limits of power and the rights to privacy and dignity.…

Operations of every size in every industry are integrating privacy into the way they do business, but the best develop programs and products with privacy as the centerpiece to maximize consumer trust. Each year, the IAPP Innovation Awards shine light on two distinguished operations that have shown outstanding innovation and…

The issue of data privacy has risen dramatically over the past few years, from a fringe concept to a major regulatory concern, particularly with the creation of GDPR. But what predictions do experts have for data privacy in 2020? We heard from experts across the technology space about their predictions…

Written by: Doc Searls – Author of The Intention Economy, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, Fellow of CITS at UCSB, alumnus Fellow of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard. Jun 23 When Archimedes said “Give me a place to stand and I can move the world, he was talking about agency.…

Security and risk management leaders, including CISOs and privacy professionals, must recognize maturing privacy regulations to ensure a privacy-friendly operation. Privacy is a business-critical discipline for many organizations, enforced by multiple regulations. Most recently, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has driven a global movement of maturing privacy and data protection…

The UK’s privacy watchdog has said the government can legally use personal data from people’s mobile phones to track and monitor behaviour if it helps fight the spread of coronavirus. It emerged last week that the government was in talks with UK mobile phone companies to potentially use anonymous location and usage…

April 30, 2020   U.S. Sens. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, John Thune, R-S.D, chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet, Jerry Moran, R-Kan., chairman of the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance and Data Security, and…