Don't worry that any georouting of text messages to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline will give a sender's exact physical location, Lifeline administrator Vibrant Emotional Health said Thursday (docket 18-336). Pointing to privacy concerns regarding those texting, Vibrant said it would implement a georouting solution that sends messages to the nearest appropriate crisis center, using the same or similar boundaries as those in place for georouted voice calls to minimize user-specific data. "User confidentiality will remain a priority, with strict adherence to data handling protocols," Vibrant said. It said the platform it makes available to crisis contact centers complies with national best practices regarding data, privacy and security. Counselors at the crisis contact centers don't have access to an individual's exact location for georouting voice calls, and georouting of texts will be handled the same way, it added.
Congress should craft and approve a federal privacy law, which can then be used to address online harms to children, Family Online Safety Institute CEO Stephen Balkam said Wednesday at a Broadband Breakfast event.
Many companies may ignore opt-out requests submitted through universal opt-out mechanisms under state privacy laws, Consumer Reports and Wesleyan University researchers said in a report released Tuesday.
Privacy is often only part of the job for most privacy professionals, which makes protecting data more challenging, compliance vendor Osano blogged Friday.
Companies that help consumers exercise privacy rights like opt-out and data deletion are not selling snake oil, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said.
Businesses should emphasize “risk-based due diligence” in their privacy programs in response to recent trends from the FTC and state attorneys general, the Interactive Advertising Bureau said Monday in an International Association of Privacy Professionals blog post.
Clarification: The IAB Tech Lab plans to launch a privacy lab this summer and is exploring privacy-compliant technologies that can help reduce advertisers’ revenue shortfalls from signal loss (see 2503200041).
When thinking about global partnerships, especially those in research and emerging technology, the U.S. must ensure that privacy and security are balanced with the need for effective collaboration, Don Graves, former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, told the American Bar Association's Privacy and Emerging Technology National Institute Friday.
NEW YORK CITY -- U.S. data privacy regulation is “constantly evolving,” said Daniel Rosenzweig, a privacy attorney and founder of DBR Data Privacy Solutions. Regulators are focused on whether companies are operationalizing legal requirements and honoring their public statements, he told the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Signal Shift event Thursday.
NEW YORK CITY -- The Interactive Advertising Bureau aims to provide a more predictable cadence of state privacy law updates to its global privacy protocol (GPP) this year, Rowena Lam, IAB Tech Lab senior director of privacy and data, said Thursday during IAB’s Signal Shift event.