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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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European Court of Justice Planet 49 decision sets the record straight on consent for online cookies and trackers and raises some serious points for consideration by companies subject to GDPR and ePrivacy.
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ACLU Brings Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Firm Clearview AI, Claiming It Engages in Unlawful Surveillance

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United States, UK and Australia Pressing Facebook to Abandon End-to-End Encryption Plans

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U.S., U.K. and Australia urged Facebook not to extend end-to-end encryption as a default option for Facebook Messenger and Instagram as it could severely hampers efforts to crack down criminal activities.
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Facebook Is Acting Like Digital Gangsters, Says New UK Report

March 18, 2019
Democracy is at risk from companies like Facebook that behave like digital gangsters. And, in fact, there are many similarities between Facebook’s behavior and recent violations and the way that “traditional gangsters” act.
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Location Privacy Is More Important Than You Think

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Apple’s Silence on Chinese Censorship Raises Questions About the Company’s Commitment to User Privacy and Human Rights

March 9, 2020
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China’s Data Protection Regulation Push Comes to the Smart Car Market; Vehicle Keys, Locally Generated Information Must Be Stored In-Country

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PrivacyOps: Reimagining Privacy Compliance

August 13, 2020
PrivacyOps is an emerging framework that reimagines how to efficiently implement and operationalize privacy management throughout an organization in an agile manner.
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Data Privacy Day 2018 Comes at an Important Time in the Privacy and Security Debate

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