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

Data Protection Report

Department of Justice, upon referral from the Federal Trade Commission, filed a complaint and stipulated order against telehealth company Cerebral, Inc. 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.

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Data privacy examples

IBM Big Data Hub

An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends. One cannot overstate the importance of data privacy for businesses today. The user can accept or reject each use of their data individually.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

And that’s a massive problem for Facebook and Google, who have been dragged to the stocks over their algorithms’ inability to, well, act like a rational and dignified human being. Facebook and Google’s advertising infrastructure is one of humanity’s most marvelous creations. The FTC made sure you couldn’t commit fraud. What waste!

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

And that’s a massive problem for Facebook and Google, who have been dragged to the stocks over their algorithms’ inability to, well, act like a rational and dignified human being. that’s the regulatory body responsible for insuring fairness and transparency in paid political speech?—?the And the FEC?—?that’s What waste!

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

And that’s a massive problem for Facebook and Google, who have been dragged to the stocks over their algorithms’ inability to, well, act like a rational and dignified human being. that’s the regulatory body responsible for insuring fairness and transparency in paid political speech?—?the And the FEC?—?that’s What waste!