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'There's a lot that goes on behind the cookie banner,' says Kabir Barday, the founder and CEO of OneTrust. He's talking about that now-ubiquitous pop-up on websites that lets you [...]

Over the past few years, Arkansas, California, Illinois, New York, Texas and Washington have all enacted legislation that impacts how businesses can use an individual's biometric data. As a result [...]

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has changed European privacy rules significantly. The introduction of the concept of privacy by design (PbD) is one of these changes but many organisations [...]

Franchisors looking to meet or exceed their franchise development and operational goals for 2019 must anticipate and overcome a variety of economic and market-based challenges. They also must anticipate and [...]

Consent manager automates the collection, recording and handling of data-use consent Attribute manager allows consumers self-service access to the personally identifiable attributes that enterprises hold on them Compliance with California's Consumer Privacy [...]

Byline: Audrey LaForest A long, drawn-out battle over 'right to repair' from nearly a decade ago is heating up in Massachusetts as groups clash over a ballot question that would [...]

A lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges Google (GOOGL) tracks user activity through hundreds of thousands of apps, even after people opt out of sharing information, Reuters' Paresh Dave reports. Boies Schiller [...]

Byline: GWEN EVERETT There's a memo to employees on the bulletin board at open-air grocery store Three Guys From Brooklyn. 'If you're sick, check your temperature before you come in. [...]

Fred Cate, one of the nation's top cybersecurity experts, says data and privacy issues in the United States will always be difficult because an open society means people weigh their [...]

The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be in force on May 25, 2018, and will be effective in the European Union (EU) immediately on this date. Following the [...]

Byline: Commentary Last June, my colleagues and I passed a bill that provided the state with increased revenue while making roads safer for all New Yorkers and keeping families intact. [...]

The Australian Information Commissioner has lodged proceedings against Facebook in the Federal Court, alleging the social media platform has committed serious and/or repeated interferences with privacy in contravention of Australian [...]

Byline: Lindsay VanHulle To get dealers to pay attention to their outdated technology, show them how it affects their stores' productivity. That's the recommendation of Erik Nachbahr, president and founder [...]

The California Consumer Privacy Act went into effect Jan. 1. Experts say it's the most stringent and sweeping privacy law in the country. Here's a look at key provisions and [...]

Byline: Emile Hallez California issued a range of proposed revisions to its sweeping Consumer Privacy Act, including changes that specifically affect employer-sponsored retirement plans. The consumer-friendly act requires many businesses [...]

Getting new data protection legislation passed in Europe has been a slow and painful process--especially with radical change afoot. When the European Commission proposed a comprehensive reform of EU data [...]

Byline: Special to the RBJ Amid high-profile breaches of consumer data at several notable companies, governments around the world are taking action to crack down on how personal data is [...]

Byline: Hazel Bradford Data privacy concerns that spurred tough new regulations in Europe could soon be spreading to the U.S., with California making the first move. In the meantime, plan [...]

Companies far beyond the Golden State will feel the impact of its new privacy law HISTORY DOES not repeat but sometimes it rhymes. So, it seems, do efforts to protect [...]

Byline: Jackie Charniga Collecting sensitive data on consumers is integral to auto lenders' core business processes. Beyond credit decisions and identity verification, lenders also harness data to improve the customer [...]

States, but not the U.S. Congress, are expected to take up data privacy legislation next year on the heels of the California Consumer Privacy Act, which takes effect Jan. 1. [...]

Byline: Bennett Loudon Two new laws designed to secure personal information collected by businesses will take effect next year. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect Jan. 1. [...]

Byline: Lindsay VanHulle Franchised dealers in California should start preparing now for new laws that likely will lead to more revenue for recall jobs and set new rules for handling [...]

The EU is nearing decisions on Facebook under the bloc's new privacy law and could begin to reveal fines and orders to change business practices by the end of the [...]

Byline: Hannah Lutz Starting next year, California dealerships that improperly manage customers' personal information could be in regulatory jeopardy as the state gives consumers more liberty to access or delete [...]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has supported federal privacy legislation and has backed increased regulation of political advertising, Jeff Horwitz and Deepa Seetharaman of the Wall Street Journal reported, citing Zuckerberg [...]

Passed unanimously last year, the California Consumer Privacy Act is the state's underappreciated attempt to regulate the collection and sale of personal data by Facebook (FB), Alphabet 's (GOOGL) Google, [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2019 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Syncsort, the global provider of Big Iron to Big Data software, has announced Assure Security, combining access control, data privacy, compliance monitoring and risk assessment [...]

Ten years ago, there was no such thing as too much data. Notions about data being the 'new oil ' prompted organizations to horde every byte they could, hoping that [...]

Nigeria intends to provide all citizens with digital ID to enhance national security and provide better access to services, but efforts have been hampered by a lack of infrastructure and [...]

Google CEO Sundar Pichai supported privacy legislation and denied that the Alphabet unit is politically biased, Bloomberg reports, citing a transcript of testimony Pichai plans to deliver to Congress later [...]

Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook is expected to stress the company's commitment to privacy and support for strong laws in both Europe and the U.S. to protect the use of [...]

Tech companies are trying to get ahead of fallout by working with policy makers to potentially shape new federal privacy legislation, according to the Wall Street Journal. Tech coalitions, such [...]

Byline: Eugene Ludwig Financial services companies, in particular banks, are racing to harness the potential of artificial intelligence. Lenders are employing algorithms that analyze consumer data to conduct credit scoring [...]

Byline: Laura Alix The state of California has passed a sweeping law that gives its 39 million residents more control over and insight into how companies use their personal data. [...]

Byline: Leonie Barrie Retailers in California are bracing themselves for the introduction of strict new state privacy legislation signed into law yesterday (28 June). The California Data Privacy Protection Act, [...]

KeyBanc analyst Andy Hargreaves notes that beyond GDPR, the next significant potential privacy laws appear to be ePrivacy Regulation in Europe and the California Consumer Privacy Act. At this point, [...]

Privacy concerns are being raised as Amazon is marketing its facial-recognition platform, Rekognition, to private businesses and law-enforcement agencies enabling them to track citizens anywhere there is a camera, even [...]

Unparalleled surveillance capacity and vast amounts of data are radically transforming criminal-justice systems, says Jon Fasman ON WHAT does the administration of justice depend? Devotees of the Old Testament might [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack Banks that are warily eyeing Europe's new data privacy rules may also want to pay attention to what's happening at the ballot box in California. A first-in-the-nation [...]

America's tech giants are growing, but so is investors' caution FOR a few years now Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google have behaved like sled dogs pulling the stockmarket forward with [...]

Byline: Penny Crosman Mark Zuckerberg's announcement last week that Facebook plans to comply with Europe's tough data privacy rules for users nationwide is a large step forward for the new [...]

Byline: Joseph Lynyak III American privacy, in its original formulation, is deader than a doornail -- or at minimum is anachronistic. And it is about time that we confront this [...]

It's been said that data is the new oil of the digital economy. In fact, the value of this fuel has risen so dramatically that the very rules governing its [...]