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While Data Privacy Day brings renewed awareness one day each year to privacy and cybersecurity, privacy compliance must be integrated into your business processes 365 days a year. As the landscape continues to change, evidenced by recent bills in New York and Washington state, 2021 may prove to be the year when responsibility for protecting personal information and honoring consumer rights starts to go nationwide.
On this Data Privacy Day, in the wake of 2020’s major data breaches and legislative movement, this alert highlights some changes to privacy law on the horizon as well as an upcoming web event hosted by Carlton Fields’ Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice regarding changes to California’s privacy law landscape.
Apple CEO Tim Cook lambasts tech rivals ahead of user privacy update
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE article
A handout still image from the keynote video released by Apple inc. shows Apple CEO Tim Cook kicks off a special event at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, on September 15, 2020.
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Apple CEO Tim Cook lambasted social media companies, though without naming them, accusing them of prioritizing user attention and data collection at the cost of allowing and even rewarding dangerous conspiracies, extremism and polarization. Too may are still asking the question ‘how much can we get away with? when we should be asking ‘what are the consequences? What are the consequences of not just tolerating but rewarding content that undermines public trust in life-saving vaccinations? What are the consequences of seeing thousands of users join extremist groups and then perpetuating an algorithm that recommends more? he said Thursday.
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Cook never specifically named Facebook or any other company. But his remarks left little doubt that his missives were aimed at the social media sites that have been criticized for enabling conspiracy theories, hate speech and political misinformation that culminated in the Jan. 6 insurrection that overtook the U.S. Capitol while Congress met to confirm the election of President Joe Biden.
“A social dilemma cannot be allowed to become a social catastrophe, Cook added, referring to a Netflix documentary about technology s and especially social media s corrosive effects on society. That film took square aim at Facebook and how its algorithms manipulate its nearly 3 billion users to get them to look at the ads that generate most of its revenue.
To promote January 28, Data Privacy Day, Apple has released a heavily illustrated report on just how a typical user s privacy can be used by advertisers and how Apple works to stop this.
Apple has released A Day in the Life of your Data, an illustrated and easy-to-understand report that details how companies track your data. Or rather, how they can unless you are using Apple s privacy features. Privacy means peace of mind, it means security, and it means you are in the driver s seat when it comes to your own data, said Craig Federighi, Apple s senior vice president of Software Engineering, in a statement. Our goal is to create technology that keeps people s information safe and protected. We believe privacy is a fundamental human right, and our teams work every day to embed it in everything we make.