A lawsuit filed against online retailer Hanna Andersson and its e-commerce platform Salesforce is among the first to cite the fledgling California Consumer Privacy Act in its judgment sought.
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Mastercard CEO lists Libra red flags as reason for exit
Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga cites concerns with compliance, data management, and making money within regulatory constraints among the reasons his company left the Facebook-led Libra Association late last year.
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10 things you need to know about CCPA compliance
As the CCPA enforcement deadline arrives, here are some boxes you’ll need to make sure your company has checked.
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First four ‘Excellence in Compliance Awards’ finalists revealed
Compliance Week is proud to announce its first four finalists for the “Excellence in Compliance Awards,” a newly formed program that recognizes individual achievement in one of 13 categories relating to risk and compliance.
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Germany’s dual approach to data regulation under the GDPR
Germany is staying ahead of the game with an advanced crackdown on data privacy and competition law violations.
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Avast dissolves analytics arm following privacy scandal
Avast maintains it always acted “fully within legal bounds,” but the British cyber-security company terminated the provision of data to its analytics arm, Jumpshot, after being accused of putting users’ privacy at risk.
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Ad industry requests delay on CCPA enforcement
Insufficient time to prepare was the argument invoked by five advertising trade bodies this week when requesting a further delay to the enforcement of the newly enacted California Consumer Privacy Act
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Facebook reveals $550M settlement for Illinois privacy lawsuit
Facebook has reached a $550 million settlement in principle in connection with a class-action lawsuit it faced in Illinois over violations of a state biometric law.
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CFTC to adopt NIST Privacy Framework
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission will become the first federal agency to adopt the National Institute of Standards and Technology Privacy Framework, the agency has announced.
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Microsoft data leak points to expansive industry-wide security vulnerabilities
Microsoft made headlines when it was discovered that nearly 250 million customer service and support records were exposed on the Web through several unsecured cloud servers. But that’s only a glimpse into wider cloud-security weaknesses throughout the industry.
