Sergiu Gatlan reports: Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banned data broker Outlogic, formerly X-Mode Social, from selling Americans’ raw location data that could be used for tracking purposes. Under the order released today, the first time data brokers were barred from sharing and selling users’ sensitive location data, Outlogic must now delete all…
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Google Contractor Pays Parents $50 to Scan Their Childrens’ Faces
Joseph Cox reports: Google is collecting the eyelid shape and skin tone of children via parent submitted videos, according to a project description online reviewed by 404 Media. Canadian tech conglomerate TELUS, which says it is working on Google’s behalf, is offering parents $50 to film their children wearing various props such as hats or…
23andMe to Data Breach Victims: It’s Your Fault!
Lucas Ropek writes: What happens when a company loses a bunch of user data? Typically, they apologize and sheepishly beg for forgiveness. Not so with 23andMe. The popular genomics company, which suffered a pretty terrible data breach last year, has instead opted to tell pissed off customers that they probably should’ve picked a better password if they…
Resources: Breach notification laws: US and GDPR
The law firm of BakerHostetler has recently released several free resources of note: 2023 Data Security Incident Response Report EU GDPR Data Breach Notification Interactive Map State Data Breach Notification Law Interactive Map PDF Version of State Data Breach Notification Laws Thanks, as always, to Joe Cadillic for alerting us to these.