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By Aaron Nicodemus2021-05-21T16:50:00+01:00 A recent survey of 100 executives from Fortune 500 companies found more than half are struggling to balance easy access to company data with privacy and security compliance. The survey was commissioned by software vendor Privacera and conducted by marketing agency Lead to Market. Among the findings, 58 percent of respondents said access restrictions were impacting the productivity of their analytic teams. This issue is particularly thorny for companies that store personally identifiable information (PII) on cloud servers. Eighty-five percent of resp...

Senators roll out bipartisan data privacy bill Share this story Sen. Amy Klobuchar is back with a bill to protect consumer data privacy when collected by large tech platforms like Facebook and Google. Klobuchar (D-MN) has teamed up with a bipartisan group of senators, including Sens. John Kennedy (R-LA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Richard Burr (R-NC), to reintroduce the Social Media Privacy Protection and Consumer Rights Act. The privacy legislation would force websites to grant users greater control over their data and allow them to opt out of data tracking and collection. “This legislation...

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EXCLUSIVE – An Empire State lawmaker is fighting back against Big Tech. New York State Senator Andrew Gounardes (D) plans to introduce a bill this week that will be the first comprehensive sales tax on the commercialization of data in U.S. history in an effort to compensate people who are unknowingly helping tech companies profit by selling personal information. "We create billions and billions of dollars in value for these companies that are making money off of us that we do not see any return off of," Gounardes told Fox News. "So we’re trying to change that conversation. I would love...

In March, Virginia swiftly passed the Consumer Data Protection Act. According to an investigation by  An investigation conducted by nonprofit news organization  The Markup found that Virginia’s case is not unique. Of the 20 proposed state privacy bills currently being considered across the country, at least 14 of them were built upon the same industry-backed framework established in Virginia. The website further believes that some of these laws might actually be weaker. In Washington, Oklahoma, Florida and Connecticut, the appearance of tech-friendly provisions in proposed privacy legisla...