Click to accept – not always good enough, says the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner.
Companies need to be fully transparent about their data processing practices and take steps to ensure that this is conveyed to the individuals.
In the case of a “clicked consent,” the Commissioner will also check:
“To be compliant with the Brazilian General Data Protection Law (LGPD) is a temporary status, which should be maintained on a day-to-day basis. In other words, there is no final line in the LGPD compliance program, since new projects and business plans should always be evaluated according to the new data protection rules and principles.”
The FTC has entered into a consent order with a sole proprietor for a failure to implement reasonable protections of personal information.
At issue were the following statements, which the FTC held to be deceptive/misleading:
Cookies in the spotlight in France:
Actual consent – in.
Continued browsing – out.
The French Data Protection Authority, CNIL, repealed its 2013 guidelines on cookies consent and announced upcoming cookies guidance will be published later this month (July). Per the new guidance, continued browsing of a website will not suffice to indicate consent to
“The loss of privacy often seems like no big deal, a small price to pay for the convenience of the digital world. This is an all-too-common misunderstanding that can have grave consequences, as privacy invasions are often invisible, harms frequently only happen in the future, and they always affect some people more than others.”
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“Whenever we make a call, go to work, search the web, pay with our credit card, we generate data. While de-identification might have worked in the past, it doesn’t really scale to the type of large-scale datasets being collected today.”
It turns out that ” four random points (i.e. time and location where a person
To sue or not to sue (for privacy violations), that is the question.
“Lawmakers negotiating a national privacy bill are clashing over whether to allow consumers to sue companies … over privacy violations — in what’s shaping up to be another potential roadblock to bipartisan legislation. Republicans and Democrats are split over whether to include
Canada has introduced a Digital Charter that will entail considerable changes to its privacy law, PIPEDA.
The “agree button is one of the biggest lies on the internet. This is not consent. This is not notice,” said U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office Executive Director for Technology Policy and Innovation Simon McDougall.
People are now living in an “age of unhappiness” and are not feeling empowered, says McDougall. With large tech companies, the
Utah legislators voted unanimously to pass landmark legislation in support of a new privacy law that will protect private electronic data stored with third parties like Google or Facebook from free-range government access.
The bill stipulates that law enforcement will be required to obtain a warrant before accessing “certain electronic information or data.” There are