Every holiday season, people get lost in the hustle and bustle of shopping and events and forget about their own privacy. Let’s explore a few ways to protect your information while shopping on Amazon this holiday season.
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Category: Rownd
New Genetic Privacy Laws
The National Law Review recently reported that Florida and California are enacting laws protecting people’s genetic information. Both states are taking different approaches to this new type of privacy protection, but their intent is similar. The National Law Review outlines the specifics of these laws in the table below.
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Whitepages: Deleting Your Information
addresses, 2 phone numbers, spouses name, parents names and in-laws names to populate on the Whitepages profile for me. I immediately felt violated and wanted to revoke Whitepage’s consent to my information.
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The Twitch Data Breach
Last week the Amazon-owned streaming platform, Twitch, was the victim of a massive data breach. During this breach, an anonymous user posted a 128GB file to a message board which undoubtedly contained sensitive information.
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TikTok Investigation over Child data and Transfer concerns
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, TikTok’s lead data privacy regulator in the European Union, opened two investigations into TikTok regarding the processing of children’s personal data and transfers of personal data to China.
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Data breaches: What history taught us
We’ve seen it time and time again in the headlines. Our personal information is being used as a commodity making megacorporations and hackers millions. Such an idea is defeating and discouraging, so what can we do about it?
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Press release: Rownd graduates from Betaworks “Fix the internet” accelerator, raises pre-seed
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 13, 2021 Contact: Robert Thelen, CEO Rownd 208-473-0100 [email protected] Rownd graduates from Betaworks “Fix the internet”
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Data Privacy and respect is at the center of Afghan Evac Effort
The Fall of Kabul When Kabul fell to the Taliban on 15 August, it sent a shiver down my spine.
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Apple Update more Helpful or Harmful?
On August 5th, Apple announced a new feature for the upcoming iOS 15, iPad OS 15, WatchOS 8 and MacOS Monterey software updates, designed to detect images or videos of child exploitation stored on their device.
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How Close are we to a Federal Privacy Law?
With the introduction of GDPR in 2018, conversations began in the United States surrounding privacy laws. California took the first step in publishing their own law (CCPA), closely followed by Virginia and then Colorado. Taking a step back, should we put responsibility on each individual state to establish their own privacy laws or should we have a federal law that is all encompassing? Which would be less complicated for businesses to follow?
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