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FTC vs. Data Brokers: Redefining the Rules of Location Data Privacy
This week, let’s consider some recent cases by the Federal Trade Commission against data broker for mishandling “sensitive location data.”
FTC Lessons in Handling Sensitive Location Data
This week, let’s consider the FTC’s continued focus on sensitive location data. We’ll look at the lessons that can be learned from its latest actions, and provide a related thought on how irony emerges when considering local governments' widespread adoption of Smart City technologies.
Mental Health Data is For Sale
This week, let's consider banning the sale of mental health data in light of a new study published by Duke, and actions by the FTC against BetterHelp (for sharing mental health data with Facebook and others targeted advertisers) and Kochava (for selling sensitive geolocation information).
Raided, Traded, Weaponized and Commoditized – Your location data
This week, we consider how the commercial exploitation of your location data may be resulting in “near perfect surveillance,” as if your phone was an ankle monitor.
Help us help you (protect your privacy)
This week, we are offering some practical advice about protecting your personal data, advocating for privacy by design and highlighting an announcement by Google’s Project Zero that illustrates the difference security and privacy, and why it is so important that we take steps to protect our personal data.