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May 18, 2021

Businesses fall into transatlantic privacy hole

Companies have begun to face costly problems abroad while they wait a new privacy deal.

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May 18, 2021

Trade cookies for control of your identity program

Brands need people, and people need brands. Do they need third-party cookies to connect?

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May 10, 2021

How expansion of privacy laws, adtech standards limits third-party data use for retargeting

How the expansion of data privacy laws and advertising technology standards limits companies’ ability to use third-party data for retargeting.

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May 7, 2021

Privacy Chiefs Say Patchwork Data Laws Mean Lawyers Must Work Alongside Engineers

Ensuring compliance with data protection laws has become so complicated that companies must make room for regulatory and ethics experts in product engineering processes.

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May 3, 2021

Google and Apple are the world’s biggest privacy regulators

Both companies are changing how they allow others to collect and use data from their billions of online users.

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April 29, 2021

Chatbots and privacy rights after death

There are a variety of laws applicable to the U.S. government premised on the idea that privacy protections cease at death.

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April 29, 2021

Between a rock and a hard place: U.S. federal privacy law

President Biden may soon announce an Executive Order that will include mandatory breach notification for software vendors that sell to the federal government.

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April 12, 2021

Privacy will disappear within next 20 years, experts predict

The Global Trends 2040 report envisions a rough ride ahead for the planet, with accelerating contests over resources, governments struggling to meet citizens’ aspirations and increased fragmentation of communities.

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March 12, 2021

Broadband Carriers Should Seek Permission Before Harnessing Web-Browsing Data For Ads

“We believe that each and every customer paying for your internet service has the right to determine how their personal data will be used, on an opt-in basis,” Mozilla, the Internet Society, PublicKnowledge and others said in an open letter to the CEOs of T-Mobile AT&T and Verizon.