No legislation or regulation in the immediate future would require a shift from notification and consent to an approach of data minimization, as she classifies it. But it’s potentially concerning for ...

The topic of data privacy is heating up at the moment, with consumers and government bodies more worried about data anonymization, invasive tracking, and illegal data harvesting than before. In this ...

U.S. businesses have long operated on the premise of "the more data, the better." The more data, the more information that can be leveraged for business use; the more data, the less need to explain ...

Let’s clear the air. The Federal Trade Commission does not hate advertising, says Samuel Levine, the agency’s consumer protection chief. But the FTC does have a few suggestions for the ad industry.

The letters I get from companies informing me of a data breach exposing my information vary in their apologetic language, with some groveling more than others for the carelessness. But I’ve yet to see ...

In a market increasingly driven by data yet equally wary of privacy violations, trust has become a significant competitive differentiator. Enterprises that successfully balance personalized ...

States that have enacted data privacy laws and those pursuing them are migrating into disparate camps in their approaches to privacy protections, setting up a clash if Congress enacts federal ...

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Data Privacy Day happens every January 28 each year. DPD is celebrated across the globe so that people's awareness of privacy practices and principles will be ...