Privacy Consent

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Privacy Notices and Consent Forms: Why, Even Though They Are Unwieldy, They Will Most Likely Stay With Us in the Years To Come

February 2, 2023

We should strive for a human-centric, value-driven, yet flexible and business friendly standards backed by laws and regulatory enforcement. Yet abandoning the old ways of relying on privacy notices and consent forms will remain contentious, controversial and, if it happens, still take a lot of time.

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Apple Fined €8 Million for App Store Ad Personalization in France, Consent Process Insufficient

January 11, 2023

CNIL has hit Apple's App Store with a fine of €8 million over its ad personalization practices, taking it to task for not properly collecting consent and making the process of opting out too indirect.

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Irish DPC Rankles Privacy Advocates Again With Proposed $42 Million GDPR Fine for Facebook

October 18, 2021

Proposed fruits of the Irish DPC's three-year investigation into Facebook's consent and transparency violations are GDPR fines that would amount to a maximum of about $36 million to $42 million, or what the company makes roughly every two hours.

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Data Privacy Insights

How Product Leads Should Be Thinking About Educating Users on Data Collection

October 6, 2021

Data privacy isn’t optional anymore, and if companies treat customers’ privacy lightly, they’re going to lose them. Instead, by prioritizing security, organizations can build brand trust and improve relationships with valued consumers, a business proposition that’s good for everyone.

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Apple May Soon Remove Apps Conducting End User Tracking Without Full Privacy Consent

December 22, 2020

Apple's mandatory privacy consent requirements are expected to roll out sometime in early 2021 and apps that do not comply with user tracking is expected to be removed from the app store.

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Data Privacy Insights

Data Privacy: Looking Beyond Consent

November 18, 2020

Consent is unmanageable at today’s scale. New proposed privacy regulations seek to establish a set of data rights that cannot be signed away.

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Data Privacy and Scalable Solutions for Consent

March 27, 2020

Uncertainty around how data is misused and soled without consent has prompted consumers to question how their data is being collected, used and protected. How can we create a more positive consent experience?

Broken cookies shows how GDPR is subverted by cookie consent tools

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GDPR Subverted by Cookie Consent Tools, Study Reveals

January 27, 2020

New study suggests that many websites are navigating around GDPR by tailoring the design of their cookie consent tools and using dark patterns to provide a misleading veneer of a consent agreement.

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Facebook Privacy Tool to Clear Your Browsing History Now in Trial Phase

September 9, 2019

New Clear History Facebook privacy tool launched in Ireland, South Korea and Spain allows user to decide which apps and websites can track their personal information and browsing data.

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EU Court Ruling on Facebook ‘Like’ Button Could Have Huge Implications for Websites

August 16, 2019

EU court recently ruled for website operators to seek user consent before transferring personal data via the Facebook ‘like’ button. This could have an impact to operators’ commercial gains and user experience when using the websites.