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tech.slashdot.org - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday that the social network had no immediate plans to apply a strict new European Union law on data privacy in its entirety to the rest of the world.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)-- Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday that the social network had no immediate plans to apply a strict new European Union law on data privacy in its...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)-- Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday the social network had no immediate plans to apply a strict new European Union law on data privacy in its...

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Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday the social network had no immediate plans to apply a strict new European Union law on data privacy in its entirety to the rest of the world, as the company reels from a scandal over its handling of personal information of millions of its users.

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday the social network had no immediate plans to apply a strict new European Union law on data privacy in its entirety to the rest of the world, as the company reels from a scandal over its handling of personal information of millions of its users.

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.

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U.S. regulators said on Tuesday that Uber Technologies agreed to do more to protect the privacy of customer and driver data in settling allegations that the ride - hailing company had made deceptive privacy and data security claims.

In ye olde pre-Internet days, we used to have a certain level of privacy protection built in, because it was such a huge pain to amass any significant amount of data on someonIn ye olde pre-Internet days, we used to have a certain level of privacy protection built in, because it was such a huge pain to amass any significant amount of data on someonin, because it was such a huge pain to amass any significant amount of data on someone.

The hearing, set for Tuesday, is the latest development in a showdown between Apple and the U.S. government that has become a lightning rod in the national debate over digital privacy and what kind of data on phones and personal devices should be accessible by law enforcement.

As BlackBerry painfully learned, however, neither stronger security nor a more principled stand on data privacy were enough to prevail in the smartphone wars.

Facebook said on Thursday a legal challenge against the way it transfers EU user data to the United States was «deeply flawed» and should not be referred to the EU's top court because ample privacy protections were already in place.

Apple has been casting itself as a protector of user privacy in recent years, particularly earlier this year when it battled the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a high - profile case involving accessing encrypted data stored on an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.

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After Congress gutted federal Internet privacy protection rules in the spring, some state legislators started to move to impose limits on data collection and tracking online on their own.

While the book is stuffed with helpful big picture observations, it doesn't offer much in the way of specific on - the - ground ideas — though Keen does call for reforms to data privacy and gig economy labor laws, and for a serious discussion of a universal basic income.

Security and privacy go hand in hand, and Facebook will have to figure out how to balance the need for privacy and how their business model depends on access to as much data as possible.

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.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 3 - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday that he agreed «in spirit» with a strict new European Union law on data privacy but stopped short of committing to it as the standard for the social network across the world.

Joel Reidenberg, a privacy expert with Fordham University, told me, «The relevant EU rules are based on general fair information practice standards, addressing a variety of aspects related to fairness in collection, purpose limitations, transparency of processing, accuracy, data subject access, and remedies for violations, and are more stringent because of their detail as well as some new twists.»

Either way, the privacy rules were enacted on a limited basis in January, while a provision that would generally require ISPs to «engage in reasonable data security practices» in the event of security breaches was set to go into legal effect on March 2.

On Wednesday, Sen. Edward Markey (D - Massachusetts) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R - Utah) reintroduced the Protecting Student Privacy Act, which would curtail student data sharing by private companies collecting data in schools.

• BigID Inc., a New York - based company focused on enterprise data protection and privacy for personal data, raised $ 14 million in Series A funding.

Zuckerberg faced tough questions on user privacy, foreign meddling on the site and abuse of social media tools in the wake of reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the personal data of as many as 87 million Facebook users.

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.

Jules Polonetsky, director of Washington D.C. - based Future of Privacy Forum, on what entrepreneurs should keep in mind when managing consumer data.

In 2015, the company began working on Quorum, an enterprise - grade transaction network focused on data privacy and built on ethereum.

In the same ruling, Berlin denied the agency's initial request for the contact data for 21,000 Google employees on Friday, saying the Labor Department's demand was too broad and could violate workers» privacy.

Sheryl Sandberg acknowledged on the conference call they did lose a handful of advertisers as the privacy concerns were raised, related to the unauthorized use of Facebook user data in the 2016 presidential campaign.

In the rush to move to the cloud, companies sometimes violate the matrix of industry standards and government regulations that touch on data handling and data privacy.

But Trump and his pro-business GOP allies on Capitol Hill have made rolling back Obama - era regulations a priority, which makes any new federal rules for protecting data and privacy unlikely in the immediate future.

In Europe, Facebook and other tech giants like Google are bracing for tough new data privacy rules that take effect May 25 and will apply to any company that collects data on EU residents, no matter where it is based.

In the midst of the Facebook data scandal, the focus has been on privacy and the extraordinary access to users»...

The EC has a specific lever to press the US on this point — in the form of the Privacy Shield arrangement which simplifies the process of authorizing personal data flows between the EU and the US by allowing companies to self - certify their adherence to a set of privacy prinPrivacy Shield arrangement which simplifies the process of authorizing personal data flows between the EU and the US by allowing companies to self - certify their adherence to a set of privacy prinprivacy principles.

Calls for new digital privacy rights in American law have increased after disclosures that the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica obtained data on more than 87 million Facebook users from quizzes that were supposed to be for academic research.

In Europe the incoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) beefs up the enforcement of privacy rules with tighter requirements on how data is handled and a new regime of tougher fines for violatiData Protection Regulation (GDPR) beefs up the enforcement of privacy rules with tighter requirements on how data is handled and a new regime of tougher fines for violatidata is handled and a new regime of tougher fines for violations.

Update: The agency has now put out a statement in which privacy commissioner Raymund Enriquez Liboroit states that Facebook told it 558 Filipino users had installed the personality quiz app that was used by CA as the route to harvest Facebook friend data — and ultimately to pull data on up to 1,175,312 more local users.

Data and privacy have become hot topics in digital advertising, of course, particularly after reports this year that data firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained information on up to 87 million Facebook usData and privacy have become hot topics in digital advertising, of course, particularly after reports this year that data firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained information on up to 87 million Facebook usdata firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained information on up to 87 million Facebook users.

In a hearing held in response to revelations of data harvesting by Cambridge Analytica, Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief executive, faced questions from senators on a variety of issues, from privacy to the company's business modeIn a hearing held in response to revelations of data harvesting by Cambridge Analytica, Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief executive, faced questions from senators on a variety of issues, from privacy to the company's business modein response to revelations of data harvesting by Cambridge Analytica, Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief executive, faced questions from senators on a variety of issues, from privacy to the company's business model.

Fred Sainz, an Apple spokesman, said the update, which has been in the works for months, was intended to better inform users on its data practices and comply with Europe's new data - privacy rules that take effect May 25 — not taunt Facebook.

He also posted testimony apologizing for Facebook's role in false news, data privacy leaks and foreign interference in elections, as his company announced that it would form an independent commission of academic researchers to study social media's impact on elections.

So I really hope that people like the ICO [Information Commissioner's Office in the UK which rules on data privacy for individuals], who are suddenly trying to catch up on the last five years of data.

In response, an FTC spokeswoman said that Gray is not working on privacy or data security investigations at the agency, including its probe into Facebook.

Ms. Singer was previously a reporter in the Sunday Business section where her series on the consumer data industry, called «You for Sale,» helped prompt several congressional and federal investigations, as well as the enactment of a student online data privacy law in California.

In those comments, which were posted by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Mr. Zuckerberg reiterated how Facebook needed to do better in data privacy and other matterIn those comments, which were posted by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Mr. Zuckerberg reiterated how Facebook needed to do better in data privacy and other matterin data privacy and other matters.

Privacy by design: Privacy is not something a company adds on as an afterthought; any online service that needs personal data in order to function must collect the minimum amount of data necessary for that purpose.

In addition to the Massachusetts AG's suit, Edelson is working on a contingency basis for Illinois regulators pressing data privacy cases against Uber and Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.

«This is a big deal, when you have that amount of data, and the privacy violations there are significant,» Senator Jeff Flake (R - AZ) said in an appearance on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday.