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$10,000,000 civil penalty for disclosing personal data without consent

Data Protection Report

The claims related to the company’s sharing personal data without consumer consent and making it very difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions to this telehealth service. The complaint alleged that the company’s data handling practices also resulted in unauthorized disclosures of personal information.

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MY TAKE: Can Project Wildland’s egalitarian platform make Google, Facebook obsolete?

The Last Watchdog

I’ll use myself as a prime example. My professional and social life revolve around free and inexpensive information feeds and digital tools supplied by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Each operates a closed platform designed to voraciously gather, store and monetize user data. I’m productive.

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Doing Well By Doing The Right Thing: How The CCPA Is Good For Businesses And Consumers

Reltio

Noncompliance could carry a hefty price tag. CCPA compels companies to tell consumers what kind of personal data is being collected about them and if it is being sold to third parties. Major fines have been levied against organizations found guilty of violating GDPR regulations; notably, in 2019, Facebook faced a potential $2.2

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Facebook and the FTC Announce A Deal, For Now

John Battelle's Searchblog

The Federal Trade Commission and Facebook have come to terms on consumer privacy, an issue the FTC formally raised in an eight-count complaint earlier this year. On Facebook’s blog , CEO Mark Zuckerberg strikes a diplomatic tone with a dash of mea culpa. Facebook claimed that it complied with the U.S.- It didn’t.

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Identity and The Independent Web

John Battelle's Searchblog

The dominant platforms of the US web - Facebook, Google, and increasingly Twitter- all have several things in common, but the one that comes first to my mind is their sophisticated ability to track your declarations of intent and interpret them in ways that execute, in the main, two things. A Shift In How The Web Works? But I digress.as

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Facebook Is No Longer Flat: On Graph Search

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post Facebook Is No Longer Flat: On Graph Search appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ” By now the news is sweeping across the blogosophere and into the mainstream press: Facebook is doing Search! Facebook is not doing search, at least not search Google-style. Well, not so fast. A new Newsfeed!

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Enterprise Scenarios for Integrating Social Network

ChiefTech

Saturday, 15 September 2007 Enterprise Scenarios for Integrating Social Network Luis recently rejoined the Facebook community and commented that he has been asked, " it will be interesting to see what best practices you practice regarding Facebook app adoption. Facebook and the like are no different. e.g., everything or nothing?