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Technological development has always outpaced privacy concerns, but never more so than in the past decade. Collection and centralization of personally identifiable information (PII), tracking of movements and digital surveillance are all at unprecedented levels. Regulations and laws are only just beginning to catch up to the ability of both governments and private entities to deploy these capabilities.

 

What exactly is there to worry about? The mass collection and centralization of data by giant multinationals such as Facebook and Google is as good of a place to start as any. Two decades of vacuuming up the personal data of users of various online services has created the most impressive marketing capabilities in history, but these profiles have astounding potential for damage when they are used the wrong way or fall into the wrong hands.

 

Unauthorized information that is captured in data breaches tends to find its way to massive “combo lists” that are sold and traded on the dark web. Social security numbers are added from this breach, home addresses and phone numbers from that one, personal health information from yet another. Soon, a frighteningly complete profile of millions of individuals is available to anyone willing to pay the asking price.

 

These are just the established data privacy issues. The emerging ones are even worse. High-quality facial recognition technology is just beginning to roll out across the public places of some countries. Artificial intelligence is not only making mass facial recognition possible, but magnifies the power and reach of any application that involves capturing and sorting information: scanning pictures, analyzing speech, sifting through text and location data. This threatens to not only shatter anonymity and privacy, but allow for highly advanced impersonation and take the concept of “identity theft” to new levels.

 

Some businesses chafe at the trouble and added expense of new and emerging data privacy regulations, but they are vital to both protecting rights and privacy and instilling confidence in end users. Customers want to be able to submit their payment information without worry about data breaches and identity theft, use services without wondering what is being done with their personal information and use devices without fear of surveillance or having location data tracked. The need for meaningful safeguards only grows greater as technological capabilities increase.

 

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Data PrivacyNews

Proposed EU Law Requiring CSAM Scanning Could Put an End To Encrypted Messages

May 19, 2022
If it were to become EU law, the proposal would require that all messaging services scan all of their messages (including encrypted messages) for potential CSAM materials, and includes use of an AI algorithm to evaluate the intent of conversations for signs of child grooming.
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Report Says Text Messages Indicate Binance Shared User Data With Russian FSB

May 18, 2022
A Reuters report indicates that popular cryptocurrency exchange Binance was pressured into handing user data over to the Russian FSB, but the company denies that the story is accurate.
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Data Privacy Jobs Report Shows Demand for Privacy Pros at Record High Thanks to Complex Regulatory Requirements, Mass Migration to Cloud Services

May 9, 2022
Demand for privacy pros sparked a 30% increase in data privacy jobs in the previous year, with projections that the trend will continue through 2022 and beyond.
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Grindr Location Data Sold to Ad Networks From 2017 to 2020, Legacy Information May Still Be Available

May 9, 2022
Dating app Grindr quietly sold user location data to a third-party ad network from "at least" 2017 until early 2020, making it available to thousands of parties.
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Data PrivacyNews

“Declaration for the Future of the Internet” Addresses Internet Freedom Amidst Decade-long Global Decline in Free Speech and Accessibility

May 6, 2022
While more of a general pledge than any sort of binding terms, the declaration addresses a long-term decline in internet freedom around the world and the concentration of personal data on massive centralized platforms.
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Data PrivacyNews

FBI Warrantless Searches More Than Doubled in 2021, With 3.4 Million FISA Requests; Agency Claims Unusual Surge in Cyber Attacks on Critical Infrastructure

May 5, 2022
FBI defended a nearly threefold increase in FISA warrantless searches by claiming that it was necessary to curtail a wave of foreign threat actors conducting operations against domestic firms.
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Data PrivacyNews

New Apple-Like Privacy Labels Come to Google Play’s Android Apps

May 4, 2022
Information displayed is very similar to what is seen on Apple's privacy labels, but it remains to be seen if Google Play effectively enforces the inclusion of accurate information about Android apps.
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Data PrivacyInsights

What Privacy Professionals Need To Know Before Investing in Federated Learning

May 2, 2022
Emerging privacy enhancing technologies (PETs), such as federated learning, are the key building blocks in changing our relationship with data. They can unlock new opportunities while protecting individual privacy, maintaining control of valuable data, and simplifying compliance in an increasingly fragmented regulatory landscape.
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Data PrivacyNews

New Study of Apple Privacy Update Finds Costs To Impacted Companies Expected To Increase, Could Hit $16 Billion in 2022

April 20, 2022
The Apple privacy update has had the anticipated negative impact on revenues for some tech companies and has even been notably worse for others, particularly Facebook.
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Data PrivacyInsights

Privacy and Analytics in the Digital Workplace: Nothing Personal, Just Business

April 20, 2022
A new approach to management and analysis of unstructured data aims to manage data in-place. In this new paradigm, information governance policies are applied to the original data sources, including the classification, retention, search, analysis, and deletion of documents.
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