Eric Goldman writes: Yesterday, I did a webinar for the California Lawyers Association on the status of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). This post recaps the discussion. A Quick Overview of the CCPA The CCPA imposes 6 new obligations on covered businesses: they have to make specified disclosures to [Read More…]
Zack Whittaker reports: Hotel chain giant Marriott will now let you check if you’re a victim of the Starwood hack. The company confirmed to TechCrunch that it has put in place “a mechanism to enable guests to look up individual passport numbers to see if they were included in the [Read More…]
Erin Brodwin reports: The data you shared with a genetic testing startup like 23andMe is private — for now. But maintaining that privacy, which rests on your data being kept anonymous and secure, is getting harder, according to privacy experts, bioethicists, and entrepreneurs. Your DNA data contains highly sensitive information [Read More…]
Zack Whittaker and Natasha Lomas report: Twitter retains direct messages for years, including messages you and others have deleted, but also data sent to and from accounts that have been deactivated and suspended, according to security researcher Karan Saini. Saini found years-old messages in a file from an archive of [Read More…]