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Data privacy examples

IBM Journey to AI blog

An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends. One cannot overstate the importance of data privacy for businesses today. The app heavily encrypts all user financial data.

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Period trackers and legal implications

FlowingData

Kendra Albert, Maggie Delano, and Emma Weil discuss data privacy for those who track their periods : In their investigation, police try to find evidence that someone intended to miscarry, or was otherwise endangering the viability of their pregnancy. Tags: period , privacy. Given the current restrictions in the U.S.,

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Optimizing retail spaces

FlowingData

Patrick Sisson for The New York Times reports on the growing popularity of tracking customer movement in stores : Complicating efforts to address privacy concerns is a lack of regulatory clarity. Tags: New York Times , optimization , privacy , retail , shopping.

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Data warehouse at the supermarket

FlowingData

Grocery stores with loyalty programs collect data on what and when you buy at their stores. Then they sell that data, because of course they do. Folding Albertsons into Kroger will potentially add tens of millions of additional households to this data pool, netting half the households in America as customers.

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Duolingo data breach affects 2.6 million users

Dataconomy

The latest Duolingo data breach exposed 2.6 In a concerning turn of events, the widely-used language learning app, Duolingo, has become the latest data breach target, putting the personal information of 2.6 The incident has raised questions about data security and privacy practices, prompting the company to take action.

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Unregulated location data industry

FlowingData

For The Markup, continuing their reports on data privacy, Alfred Ng and Jon Keegan discuss the non-regulation of the location data industry : Without government regulation, the current approach from Apple and Google is to play catch-up with data brokers for each new way that location data can be shared, experts said.

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Anonymized data is rarely anonymous

FlowingData

There is virtually no regulation of the data brokerage circus. Tags: privacy , Wired.

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