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[…] an important initiative for promoting consumer choice, fostering competition, and protecting consumers’ privacy. The debate around open banking highlights tensions between privacy and competition along with a number of privacy flashpoints including: data portability, access, sharing, transparency, control, and interoperability.  Open Banking Can Provide New Rights and Benefits to Consumers and Help Spur Competition, […]

[…] pointed to surveys that showed that many mainstream Indian users – i.e. modest-earning individuals from primarily rural areas – do not understand the differences between their mobile phones, the internet, online services and allied services like payment platforms, because they exclusively use them on their phones. Understanding this reality (how users have never used […]

[…] are ongoing, before sending the case back to Düsseldorf to be decided on substance.  The court in Düsseldorf suspended proceedings and asked the CJEU to clarify a number of essential questions (see also Section 1 above). In this context, can the Bundeskartellamt determine a GDPR breach by the company investigated in antitrust proceedings and […]

[…] any regulatory and compliance approach to data protection,” said new Manager of Asia-Pacific, Dr. Clarisse Girot. “Today, this approach has been called into question, and an increasing number of regulators and privacy professionals are promoting accountability over a consent-centric approach to data protection. However, the fragmentation of data protection laws in Asia Pacific is […]

[…] must also appoint Data Protection Officers (DPOs) in specific situations, depending on the volume of PI processed, and conduct regular compliance training. Individuals are granted an extensive number of “rights in personal information handling activities”. The PIPL provides for individual rights very similar to GDPR’s “rights of the data subject”, such as erasure and […]

[…] advent of unprecedentedly large datasets, increased computational power, advances in data science, machine learning, and statistical modeling. AI models include programming and system design based on a number of sub-categories, such as robotics, expert systems, scheduling and planning systems, natural language processing, neural networks, computer sensing, and machine learning. In many cases of consumer […]

[…] not implemented responsibility, and carefully controlled with both technical and legal safeguards, digital IDs might allow for increased location-tracking and user profiling, already a concern with cell phone technology. Blockchain technology, if not designed carefully, creates a public, immutable record of information exchanges, regarding where, when, and why a digital ID was requested. And […]

[…] “widely distributed media.” “Direct identifier” is defined as “information that is commonly used to identify a data subject, including name, physical address, email address, recognizable photograph, telephone number, and Social Security number.” “Deidentified data” is defined as “personal data that is modified to remove all direct identifiers and to reasonably ensure that the record […]

[…] of antitrust laws in nearly every sector of the economy. Although there is a focus on particular markets, such as agriculture and healthcare, the Order includes a number of provisions with clear implications for data protection and privacy.  In our view, the overarching theme of the Order is a concern with large platforms and […]

[…] qualitative test, the results shown by Carroll were quite different. When users were asked what they would do if they were offered a cookie banner, a significant number stated that they always rejected non-essential cookies. This demonstrates that, verbally, people were more willing to err on the side of privacy caution, which was not […]