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November 18, 2021 Hannah Thelen

Protecting your data while shopping on Amazon for the holidays

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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November 9, 2021 Hannah Thelen

How Zillow Uses Your Data

Have you heard about the recent Zillow situation? iBuyers have been purchasing homes from consumers who are looking to sell quickly and conveniently, using algorithms and user data to determine what price to pay. After minor renovations, they place the house back on the market for an elevated price. Zillow recently announced that they will no longer be taking place in this arena after failing to keep up with the dynamically changing housing market. So, what does this have to do with your data?
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November 5, 2021 Hannah Thelen

New Australian Privacy Law

Australia is the next country in line to introduce federal privacy legislation. Attorney-General Michaelia Cash released an exposure draft of the Privacy Legislation Amendment (Enhancing Online Privacy and Other Measures) Bill 2021, which would enable the creation of a binding Online Privacy code for social media services, data brokers and other large online platforms operating in Australia.
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October 28, 2021 Hannah Thelen

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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On Surveillance Capitalism

How massive corporations aggregate data and surveil each one of us, offering to their business customers not merely insights on what we might do next, but even the ability to manipulate us into what we do next

February 6, 2020 Data Privacy / Data Security

What the Iowa Caucus teaches us about Data Privacy

I am sure you have heard the crazy news out of Iowa. “We have every indication that our systems were

January 16, 2020 Data Ownership

The “how” to a crucial “why”

Andrew Yang is fond of saying clearly that the best way to counterbalance the extremes of the tech giants is