Remember when data was the new oil? Now it may be your DNA. Simon Erickson reports: …A fairly new company called LunaDNA may have cracked the code. Founded last year, LunaDNA began working on a community-owned approach that encrypts DNA information on a blockchain. Users could give their permission to access this [Read More…]
From EPIC.org: EPIC has filed an urgent Freedom of Information Act request to the Federal Trade Commission seeking all pending complaints. As a result of the extensive work of consumer organizations, the Commission issued a consent order against Facebook in 2011 barring the company from making any future misrepresentations about [Read More…]
Christian Hetrick reports: A New Jersey data broker that collects and sells personal information about consumers told regulators that it did not knowingly possess data on minors, even as it advertised a mailing list of more than a million high school students for sale on its website. ALC Inc., a [Read More…]
Joseph J. Lazzarotti, Jason C. Gavejian and Maya Atrakchi of Jackson Lewis write: The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which goes into effect January 1, 2020, is considered the most expansive state privacy law in the United States. Organizations familiar with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which [Read More…]