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FTC: Commercial Surveillance and Data Security Rulemaking

Posted on August 13, 2022June 24, 2025 by Dissent

From the FTC: Commercial surveillance is the business of collecting, analyzing, and profiting from information about people. Technologies essential to everyday life also enable near constant surveillance of people’s private lives. The volume of data collected exposes people to identity thieves and hackers. Mass surveillance has heightened the risks and stakes of errors, deception, manipulation,…

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Illuminate Ed Pulled from ‘Student Privacy Pledge’ After Massive Data Breach

Posted on August 9, 2022June 24, 2025 by Dissent

Mark Keierleber writes: Embattled education technology vendor Illuminate Education has become the first-ever company to get booted from the Student Privacy Pledge, an unprecedented move that follows a massive data breach affecting millions of students and allegations the company misrepresented its security safeguards. The Future of Privacy Forum, which created the self-regulatory effort nearly a…

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Adtech giant Criteo faces $65M fine in France for GDPR consent breaches

Posted on August 6, 2022June 24, 2025 by Dissent

Natasha Lomas reports: In the latest blow to the creepy ‘tracking-ads’ complex, French adtech giant Criteo has been found in breach of European Union data protection regulation and hit with a €60 million sanction (~$65 million) by the country’s national privacy watchdog in a preliminary decision following a multi-year investigation. Digital rights advocacy group Privacy…

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Plaintiffs Attorneys Seek Additional Sanctions Against Google in Data Privacy Case Over ‘Incognito’ Searches

Posted on August 5, 2022June 24, 2025 by Dissent

Alaina Lancaster reports: Plaintiffs attorneys in a proposed privacy class action against Google are asking a federal judge to order additional sanctions against the tech giant for allegedly failing to hand over documents revealing that the company tracks and collects user data in private browsing mode, an allegation at the center of the lawsuit’s claims,…

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