Discussing how privacy issues intersect with a company’s growth goals and how they permeate the organization is key to having a strong privacy policy and earning consumer trust, said TrustArc executives during a Tuesday webinar the compliance vendor hosted.
The variety in privacy laws and standards give companies some flexibility in how consent banners are displayed on their websites, said panelists during an IAPP webinar Tuesday. But they cautioned that teams throughout an organization must understand how trackers operate on the site and what data is collected.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowed to stand most of a California law that makes it illegal for internet-based services and applications to provide an addictive feed to users younger than 18, unless the operator doesn't know the user is a minor.
Safety by design is the core element to ensuring kids remain safe online while also protecting their privacy and rights, a Public Knowledge paper argues (see 2509050046). More research is needed concerning tangible harms, panelists said during a discussion Monday about the paper.
Age assurance can be a crucial step in online safety for children, so long as it’s done carefully and in a privacy-preserving way, said experts during a Public Knowledge event Monday. However, they warned that age assurance should be part of a larger response.
Though using age assurance to access certain online platforms and websites is the route policymakers frequently take hoping to protect children online, it can end up doing more harm than good, multiple privacy organizations said in recent papers and blog posts.
Data minimization is an evolving regulatory landscape that is garnering increased awareness lately as trust and transparency become more of a focus for organizations and data breaches highlight the impact of having extra data, said panelists during a webinar hosted by compliance vendor TrustArc on Thursday.
Google will appeal a court ruling that it violated privacy rights of almost 100 million users who asked the company not to track their data, a company spokesperson said following the jury verdict Wednesday. Meanwhile, the $425 million in damages against Google seem low, a privacy attorney said.
Software company PowerSchool’s failure to protect the personal information of almost 900,000 Texas schoolchildren and educators late last year was a violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act, alleged Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in a lawsuit Wednesday (see 2509030050). Texas joined Tennessee (see 2505120026) and a class-action in California (see 2501220057) in suing the company over the incident.
Software company PowerSchool’s failure to protect the personal information of nearly 900,000 Texas schoolchildren and educators is a violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act, alleged Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in a lawsuit Wednesday.