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How the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will affect you and your business | TECH(talk)

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The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is, in some ways, similar to Europe's GDPR. This rule, which goes into effect in 2020, gives individual users more ownership over their own data. Users can even refuse to allow companies to sell their online data. As the compliance deadline approaches, CSO Online contributor Maria Kolokov and senior editor Michael Nadeau discuss with Juliet how CCPA may shift business models, change online behavior and reveal where exactly our data has been. Some tech companies, like Google, are even trying to exempt themselves from regulation. Failure to adhere to the rule could be an "extinction level" event.

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Security Sophos 

Database exposed 133 million US Facebook users’ phone numbers

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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:46:55 +0000

Facebook confirmed the breach, claiming that the total number of users in the database was 210 million.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/1g5AlsbhrXc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Security Sophos 

YouTube fined $170m for covertly tracking kids online

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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:43:26 +0000

YouTube can’t track kids online anymore without their parents’ permission, says the FTC, as it fined the Google-subsidiary $170m.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/1ObwzofWsMw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Security Sophos 

Facebook expands use of face recognition

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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:38:46 +0000

Facebook’s replaced “tag suggestions” with “face recognition” – a setting Facebook says may help to save us from identity thieves.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/E2d_NAvFEnQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Security Sophos 

YouTube reportedly to be fined up to $200m over COPPA investigation

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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 10:07:20 +0000

It’s a gnat bite, critics say: The FTC’s reported fine would be worth about two to three months of YouTube ad revenue.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/shNXqHcY-RY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Security Sophos 

EFF and Mozilla scold Venmo over app’s privacy failings

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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 09:34:26 +0000

The tense stand-off between privacy campaigners and the popular mobile payment app Venmo has taken another turn for the worse.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/dIdmnOeegug” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Security Sophos 

China’s new face-swapping app Zao gets whiplash-fast privacy backlash

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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:53:53 +0000

Fast trip: in two days, it debuted, shot to the top of China’s App Store, sparked privacy outrage, and got banned by WeChat.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Jf1X-mppWbo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Security Sophos 

FBI asks Google for help finding criminals

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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:39:18 +0000

FBI agents issued Google with a warrant in November 2018, seeking its help with a bank robbery the month before.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/jfyUzpPb6Ww” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Security Sophos 

Facebook: ‘Technical error’ let strangers into Messenger Kids chats

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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:58:00 +0000

It won’t happen again, Facebook told senators who wondered how well it’s handling kids’ privacy in the chat app abhorred by kids advocates.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/A2XiqyuYDg4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apple apologizes for humans listening to Siri clips, changes policy

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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 10:35:34 +0000

Apple is turning off automatic review of Siri audio and locking it down so that only Apple employees get to listen to it.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/YC7GTRUdtR8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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