Articles Tagged with ''consumer protection''

Listen to this episode of The Security Podcasts with Oded Anderman, Program Manager in Meta Platform’s Privacy organization, on data scraping.

According to a cybersecurity trends report, malware was the top online consumer threat from May to July 2023, accounting for 58% of all detections.

In response to FTC concerns over artificial intelligence (AI) and data privacy, consumer opinions on AI were analyzed from a recent Capterra survey. 

A new report reveals that more than 30% of cloud data assets contain sensitive information.

Under the proposed FTC order, Ring is prohibited from profiting from unlawfully accessing consumers videos and must pay $5.8 million in consumer refunds.

The use of consumer data was analyzed in a recent survey by Near Intelligence examining how consumer behavior data is used to make business decisions.

Google will pay an $85 million settlement to the State of Arizona for violating the state's Consumer Fraud Act with its location tracking feature.

The Federal Trade Commission will be exploring rules to crack down on lax data security and harmful commercial surveillance. 

A robust communications plan touching on ethical concerns, user experience, education and transparency might help to dispel the public’s concerns about facial recognition.

The tech giants that the CCPA attempted to target were able to escape liability by capitalizing on a convenient loophole that excluded data analytics from the definition of a sale. New CCPA enforcement letters could have major implications for the broader data ecosystem — third-party data may disappear as we know it. The time has come to provide consumers with value for opting in.