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. -- LinkedIn recently completed a project to deidentify advertising activity data to ensure user information is protected while still allowing data processing to generate valuable analytics for advertisers, engineers from the Microsoft-owned social network said Monday at the USENIX Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR) conference.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Advertisers and regulators are considering the potential of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) to balance business interests with protecting consumers’ privacy, panel members said Monday during the USENIX Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR) conference. But whether PETs, which include differential privacy and homomorphic encryption, are up to the task is unclear, panelists said.
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.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Companies’ processes for responding to law enforcement requests could constitute a security vulnerability with privacy implications, Lukas Bundonis, a senior privacy engineer at Netflix, said at the USENIX Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR) conference Monday.
The actual cost to a company from a privacy enforcement action could be many times higher than the regulator's fine, Clarip CEO Andy Sambandam said in an interview. Privacy has become a quickly rising concern for companies amid a growing number of privacy laws and state enforcement actions, he told Privacy Daily.
While children and teens' safety online has been a focus of regulators and lawmakers globally, privacy experts believe this trend will continue growing, according to their recent posts.
A coalition of organizations and privacy experts raised concerns about a new feature of digital identity systems that allows the government to track individuals through documents such as driver’s licenses. The “phone home” functionality is built into identity systems and allows “authorities to track when or where identity is used” when the identity issuer or third party interacts with the user’s app, said a Monday statement by the coalition, which included the American Civil Liberties Union.
Julie Brill, chief privacy officer and corporate vice president for Global Privacy, Safety, and Regulatory Affairs at Microsoft, will step down from her full-time role in July, she said in a LinkedIn post Friday. Brill said she will launch a consultancy in September with Microsoft as her first client. Before her time at Microsoft, Brill was a commissioner at the FTC, and later was part of the privacy and cybersecurity practice at Hogan Lovells.