Ron Amadeo reports: Google has settled a privacy lawsuit with a coalition of 40 state attorneys general today. Google agreed to pay $391.5 million for misleading Location History settings the company was running from 2014-2020. Google’s Location History settings have gotten it in trouble with several regulatory bodies. The action began after a 2018 Associated Press article pointed out…
ANALYSIS: FTC Privacy Authority Is Poised for Breakthrough Year
Mary Ashley Salvino writes: If the Federal Trade Commission were a major league baseball team, it might be fair to view 2022 as a rebuilding year regarding its privacy enforcement authority. 2023, on the other hand, might just be the season that marks the FTC’s long-awaited return to a privacy authority winning streak. The FTC…
Hong Kong privacy watchdog finds healthcare chain shared database with personal details of over 1 million customers among its companies
Rachel Yeo reports: A healthcare chain in Hong Kong has shared a database containing the personal information of more than a million customers among several of its member companies without their consent, the privacy watchdog has found, although the business insists strict limits on access were set. […] In response to the individual cases highlighted…
The Myth of Online Privacy: Risks, Dangers and Solutions
Gabriela Vatu writes: Privacy these days means something completely different than it did even a decade ago. And the only things we have to blame for this are the internet and ourselves. In the age of the internet, we’re only as “private” as the tools we use allow us to be, which isn’t much. While…