Lighthouse Reports investigated the surveillance industries’ practices, including how individuals’ sensitive location data is tracked without their knowledge and the privacy implications of the advancement of surveillance tools. The report highlighted surveillance technology company First Wap’s phone-tracking software Altamides, and…
While privacy professionals work in the areas of data security, AI governance, law enforcement response, trust and safety, marketing permissions and several others, REI Senior Counsel for Privacy and Cybersecurity Chuck Cosson, CIPP/US, writes, that “it’s unclear” if privacy is…
Walmart and OpenAI will collaborate to allow Walmart products to be purchased through ChatGPT and will share consumers’ purchase information with the AI company, The Wall Street Journal reports. Walmart’s purchase data will provide OpenAI with insight into the company’s…
Instagram will enable a content rating system similar to the Motion Picture Associations’ PG-13 movie rating system to prevent underage users from viewing potentially inappropriate content, Reuters reports. The system will also allow underage users’ parents to adjust parental and…
During its most recent plenary meeting, the European Data Protection Board chose its topic of focus for the fifth round of its coordinated enforcement action in 2026. For the CEF, participating member state data protection authorities will focus aligning their…
A London-based professional services company was fined a combined 14 million GBP by the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office following a 2023 data breach that resulted in the personal information of 6.6 million people being stolen. Both Capita PLC and Capita…
Helen Dixon, former commissioner of Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, wrote a journal article for the Oxford University Press about the need for better evaluation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation before it can be determined if it is working…
TrustArc announced it has been acquired by Main Capital Partners to allow widespread expansion of its compliance technology in the EU and India. TrustArc CEO Jason Wesbecher said the acquisition aims to grow the company’s services and “accelerate innovation, especially…
Updates to the International Organization for Standardization’s privacy compliance management standard, ISO 27701, represent several significant changes, such as eliminating the requirement for organizations to employ an ISO 27001 certified Privacy Information Security Management System, Birdie Data Protection Officer Henry Davies, AIGP, CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP,…
The U.K. Investigatory Powers Tribunal dismissed an appeal by Apple against a new Home Office order to provide law enforcement access to U.K. users’ encrypted data stored on iCloud, Computer Weekly reports. Under the Home Office’s order, only U.K. users’…