SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Internet Safety Labs is embracing crowdsourcing and some automation as it attempts to label the privacy and safety risks of all websites and mobile apps by 2029, said Bryce Simpson, an ISL safety researcher, at the USENIX Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR) conference Tuesday.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- A majority of telehealth apps may be violating at least one privacy law or rule, the USENIX Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR) conference heard Tuesday.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Meta is taking a more proactive approach to preventing systemic privacy incidents, said Sam Havron, a privacy engineer on Meta’s incident management team.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Carnegie Mellon is developing a framework for assessing the user-friendliness of websites' privacy notices and consent options, two professors said at the USENIX Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR) conference Monday. While aimed at companies seeking to review their methods, the tool could be useful to privacy regulators as well, Carnegie Mellon CyLab Director Lorie Cranor told us.
While a change in opinion from notice-and-choice data minimization requirements is highlighted by several recent laws, whether there is a true paradigm shift cannot be understood until they go into effect and become enforceable, said the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) in a report Thursday.
Despite the increased availability of parental controls on devices and digital platforms, just half of parents -- or fewer -- utilize them to protect their children online, according to a study from the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), the organization announced Wednesday.
It’s unclear if enforcers like the FTC can require the buyer of 23andMe to honor the company’s privacy policies if the buyer doesn’t publicly state its intention to do so, according to Reed Freeman, co-chair of the ArentFox privacy and data security group.
Legislators can’t address kids’ safety issues without also considering kids’ privacy issues because they're intertwined, privacy attorney Paula Bruening said Tuesday during an Innovators Network webinar.
Comments are due July 21 on the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s updated general terms for digital ad transactions, IAB announced Tuesday.
Reducing the number of exemptions in states’ comprehensive privacy laws, “particularly where they may seem arbitrary and carve out protections for large industries, may serve as low-hanging fruit for regulators,” said University of California-Los Angeles law students Nicola Haubold and J.Y. Khoo in a Monday op-ed for TechPolicy.press.