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News and Alerts for May 9, 2022

May 9, 2022
Editorial Team
Dark Patterns, Data Governance, Data Privacy, Data Protection, European Union, Governance, Minnesota, Policies and Procedures, Privacy, Weekly Update
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New Privacy Coalition Gathers to Set Agenda The newly-created Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules Forum-—an international association of countries that includes the U.S., Japan, Singapore, and the Republic of Korea—gathered last week in Hawaii to work on an agreement for, “potential…

FTC Report Reveals ISP Data Privacy Failures

November 19, 2021
Michael Reinhardt
Consumer Privacy, Dark Patterns, Data Brokers, Data Security, Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued a report on the privacy practices of internet service providers (ISPs). The report is based on material provided by the United States’ six largest ISPs – AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Charter Communications Operating, Xfinity, T-Mobile, and Google Fiber. These ISPs comprise approximately 99 percent of the mobile internet market.…

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CPPA to Target Ad-Tracking

November 13, 2021
Shaswata Kapat
Cookies, CPRA, Cybersecurity, Dark Patterns, Data Protection, Data Protection Agency, Federated Learning

California is gearing up to write rules to enforce its California’s Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). Regulators, led by California Privacy Protection Agency Director Ashkan Soltani, are preparing to write rules to guide that enforcement and those rules could address the new forms of identity technologies that advertisers and publishers are currently testing. Soltani criticized email-based…

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FTC Focuses on Data Privacy and Cybersecurity as Priorities

October 25, 2021
Editorial Team
Artificial Intelligence, COPPA, Cybersecurity, Dark Patterns, Data Privacy, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Litigation

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has made it clear: data privacy and cybersecurity are now a priority, and will be for years to come. In the wake of PrivacyCon 2021, the FTC’s sixth annual privacy, cybersecurity and consumer protection summit, held this summer, the FTC finally took official and sweeping action on privacy and cybersecurity.…

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