This week's podcast brings together Kevin Tofel's new Pebble Steel purchase, my connected garage door and a deep discussion
about data privacy in the connected world with this week's guest Sam Ramji, the VP of strategy at Apigee.
Mark Zuckerberg will head to Washington next week to testify before lawmakers
about data privacy in the wake of the Facebook - Cambridge Analytica scandal.
We talk a lot
about data privacy in the context of your responsibility to your clients to keep their data appropriately safeguarded, but what about your own personal data?
Not exact matches
But sources told the Post that the partnership was being designed not to compromise users»
privacy — that Google might, for example, share information
about the codes used
in the attack, but not
about compromised
data.
Facebook, which has
about 30 million active users
in Germany out of a population of 80 million, has run a major advertising campaign
in the country
in recent weeks
in an attempt to address concerns
about privacy and control of personal
data.
Ireland's
Data Protection Commissioner, which regulates Facebook as its European headquarters are in Dublin, found in May that a complaint about privacy protections in mechanisms Facebook uses to transfer data were «well - founded.&ra
Data Protection Commissioner, which regulates Facebook as its European headquarters are
in Dublin, found
in May that a complaint
about privacy protections
in mechanisms Facebook uses to transfer
data were «well - founded.&ra
data were «well - founded.»
Since the sections of the Communications Act that allow the FCC to review
privacy policies make no mention of
data about web browsing and app usage, those provisions likely could not be made opt -
in by default.
The development could bring an abrupt end to the high - stakes legal showdown which has become a lightning rod for a broader debate on
data privacy in the United States, which was inflamed by revelations
in 2013 from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden
about the U.S. government's massive surveillance programs.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced off with a room full of senators on Tuesday
in what many believed would be a tough grilling
about privacy in the wake of news that political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had obtained
data about 87 million Facebook users.
Rather than squirming
in his seat during the questions
about data privacy and Russian - backed political ads, Zuckerberg appeared poised and
in control on Tuesday.
Every marketer will have access to every customer they are touching and targeting and every consumer will have trust because they will be able to click a Jahia - powered website
privacy link to see what everyone
in the company knows
about you, and you can say what
data you want anonymized, deleted and even where the
data should be stored.
«Most other countries think
about privacy in a much more restrictive way than the U.S.,» says Byers, who expects he may need to open offshore
data centers.
At SXSW 2014
in Austin last March, Snowden again spoke via videoconference
about online
privacy and personal
data security.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is
in his second day of submitting to politicians» questions
about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and frankly a lot of it has started to blend together:
data, moral responsibility,
privacy, blah blah blah.
As BuzzFeed notes, much of Uber's new policy on accessing passenger
data was included
in an update to the company's
privacy policy issued a day after reports of an Uber executive's comments
about doing research on journalists.
During a panel centering on issues of
privacy and user
data at the Techonomy conference
in Half Moon Bay, California, last week, Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick described Facebook, Amazon, and Google as examples of an entirely new breed of global company that, while offering products and services users love, fill those same users with reservations
about how the companies operate.
Google is introducing new features to give users more control over personal
privacy and security
in response to mounting concerns
about how the search company collects and uses its massive amounts of user
data.
Even if you do your searches from a specialized browser, tape over all your webcams and monitor your
privacy settings without fail, your personal
data has probably still been collected, stored and used
in ways you didn't intend — and don't even know
about.
The scandal has led to broader questions
about how Facebook and other social media networks manage
data, and Facebook has been changing its
privacy policies and tools
in response.
You can also always go to your App
Privacy Settings and remove permissions for an app to pull more
data about you
in the future.
The social network is undergoing its worst crisis
in its 14 - year history as it faces a torrent of criticism
about its
privacy practices and the way it handles user
data.
European officials have been more concerned
about the state of
data privacy and regulation than their American counterparts for quite some time, but the immediate origins of the new
data protection law can be traced to the fury over the extent of US surveillance
in the years after 9/11.
To find out more
about the reasons why and the extent to which Facebook collects
data, how the data is further processed and used, your rights in the matter, and settings options you can choose that protect your privacy, please see Facebook's Data Protection Policy which can be found at: www.facebook.com/about/priv
data, how the
data is further processed and used, your rights in the matter, and settings options you can choose that protect your privacy, please see Facebook's Data Protection Policy which can be found at: www.facebook.com/about/priv
data is further processed and used, your rights
in the matter, and settings options you can choose that protect your
privacy, please see Facebook's
Data Protection Policy which can be found at: www.facebook.com/about/priv
Data Protection Policy which can be found at: www.facebook.com/
about/
privacy.
The hearing was, at least
in theory, supposed to be
about Facebook's
data privacy practices and the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
He was at the helm of the NSA
in 2013 when former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden leaked
data about classified U.S. surveillance programs that sparked an international debate
about digital
privacy.
Writing
about the
data misuse scandal
in the Harvard Law Review, David Vladeck, the FTC's former director, argues there are now only two interpretations of Facebook's actions vis - a-vis
data protection and user
privacy: Cluelessness or venality.
Though Facebook and Amazon traffic
in user
data, Facebook's business model, which leverages user information to sell advertising, has stoked more concern
about privacy than Amazon's retail business.
While Twitter seems to have found a path for growth, Dorsey is being pressed to follow
in the footsteps of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and testify before U.S. Congress
about data privacy.
Mark Zuckerberg answered questions
about Facebook's
data collection and
privacy policies this week from almost 100 different politicians
in nearly 10 hours of public testimony.
The hearings didn't reveal new information
about Facebook's practices, but they suggested that many members of Congress are ready to move on from the status quo of weak
privacy protections and unfettered
data collection by companies
in the U.S. Below, we break down some of the top hits, misses, and unanswered questions from the hearings.
Like the rest of the tech media, Kevin and I kick off the show with a discussion
about data collection and
privacy in light of the allegations against Cambridge Analytica.
Andrew Speyer, VP and managing director at Wing, told CMO.com
in December that revelations
about how much we're all being spied on would prompt some pushback from consumers to safeguard their
data privacy.
While the GDPR will only directly impact Europeans and those who do business with them, given the scale of the market —
about 508 million people live
in the European Union — there is hope that it will force companies to emphasize
privacy for all of their customers»
data, worldwide.
Revelations
about Facebook's role
in the exploitation of user
data by a company called Cambridge Analytica have provoked widespread calls for tough, new
data privacy laws.
We may collect information
about you from a variety of third party
data vendors, all of which are compliant with applicable
data privacy laws
in their respective jurisdictions.
Facebook is under fire for supposedly lax
privacy measures that allowed Cambridge Analytica to retain the private
data of
about 50 million Facebook users that the company acquired
in 2015.
The ongoing debate
about data and
privacy is directly related to the question of encryption
in some important ways, as Mossberg's tweet notes: messaging content is
data that users would like to keep private, and encryption accomplishes that.
The sentiment seemed widespread on tech and media Twitter: there was a lack of specificity
in terms of questions
about privacy (this allowed Zuckerberg to turn nearly every question
about the ownership of
data to a discussion
about user interface controls that limit where
data is shown to other Facebook users), plenty of dodged questions (every time there was a question
about the
data Facebook generates
about users beyond what they themselves enter into the system Zuckerberg needed to «check with his team»), and bad questions that presumed Facebook sells
data, letting Zuckerberg run out the clock at least three times by explaining the basics of Facebook's business model (this is precisely why I have been so outspoken
about the problem of perpetrating this falsehood: it lets Facebook off the hook).
The Facebook CEO is set to testify again today
about the company's
data and
privacy policies, this time before the House Commerce Committee beginning at 10 am ET / 7 am PT — if you want to watch live you can do so here or
in the YouTube video above.
Within the scope of our authorization to do so, and
in accordance with our commitments under the
Privacy Shield, Palo Alto Software will provide individuals access to personal
data about them.
Revelations
in recent years by former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden
about widespread surveillance of communications have done nothing to dispel the wariness of civil libertarians and
privacy advocates concerning sovereignty over
data.
The
privacy policy for Cambridge Analytica, last updated
in April 2017, said that «personal
data held
about its registered supporters will be one of the transferred assets.»
This
Privacy Policy outlines the information we may collect
about you
in relation to your use of our websites, events, related publications and services («personal
data») and how we may use that personal
data.
In the first quarter of this year, concerns about consumer data privacy and potentially tighter regulatory controls exacerbated existing investor nervousness tied to speculation the US Federal Reserve would quicken the pace of interest - rate hikes in response to higher wage growt
In the first quarter of this year, concerns
about consumer
data privacy and potentially tighter regulatory controls exacerbated existing investor nervousness tied to speculation the US Federal Reserve would quicken the pace of interest - rate hikes
in response to higher wage growt
in response to higher wage growth.
In a world where personal information may increasingly be transmitted and used in multiple locations simultaneously, protecting data privacy may be possible only if the information itself becomes intelligent and capable of making appropriate decisions about its release, on behalf of the data subjec
In a world where personal information may increasingly be transmitted and used
in multiple locations simultaneously, protecting data privacy may be possible only if the information itself becomes intelligent and capable of making appropriate decisions about its release, on behalf of the data subjec
in multiple locations simultaneously, protecting
data privacy may be possible only if the information itself becomes intelligent and capable of making appropriate decisions
about its release, on behalf of the
data subject.
While your individual information (personally identifiable information) is protected as described
in this
privacy policy, we reserve the right to use, transfer, sell, and share aggregated, anonymous
data about our users as a group for any business purpose, such as finding compatible advertisers and partners and analyzing usage trends.
To help make you aware of our
data practices we drafted this
Privacy Policy to describe the ways
in which DC Central Kitchen collects, uses, discloses, and securely stores information from or
about you through our websites and through offline engagements, such as mail or
in - person events.
For more on the
privacy angle and some big - think considerations
about how this affects democracy
in a broad sense, see Daniel Kreiss's Stanford Law Review article, Yes We Can (Profile You)-- A Brief Primer on Campaigns and Political
Data.
A recent Microsoft study
in America revealed 90 per cent of senior business leaders worried
about the security and
privacy of their
data in the cloud.
We may collect information
about you from a variety of third party
data vendors, all of which are compliant with applicable
data privacy laws
in their respective jurisdictions.