The new year ushered in a landmark California privacy law that gives residents more control over how their digital data is used. The Golden State isn’t the only beneficiary, though, because many companies are extending the protections — the most important being the right to see and delete the personal data a company has — to all their customers in the United States. In the fall, I took the right of access for a test drive, asking companies in the business of profiling and scoring consumers for their files on me.

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  • New Colorado Law Protects Something Very Personal: Your Brain Data
    The subtle electrical signals sparkling inside our skulls are uniquely our own, but in our data-vacuuming world, companies could try to harness them for profit. Colorado lawmakers say no.
    04/18/2024 - 6:34 am | View Link
  • False claims about Canada's rules on personal data spread online
    When the Canadian government collects personal data it is required to disclose how the information will be used and stored via Personal Information Banks (PIBs). Social media users are saying the process is new and nefarious,
    04/17/2024 - 9:50 am | View Link
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  • GDPR personal data – what information does this cover?
    The definition of personal data is any information relating to an “identified or identifiable natural person.” When most people think of personal data, they think of phone numbers and addresses; however, personal data covers a range of identifiers.
    04/12/2024 - 4:14 pm | View Link
  • Personal Data
    Only if a processing of data concerns personal data, the General Data Protection Regulation applies. The term is defined in Art. 4 (1). Personal data are any information which are related to an identified or identifiable natural person.
    04/12/2024 - 7:03 am | View Link
  • What is personal data?
    Answer. Personal data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable living individual. Different pieces of information, which collected together can lead to the identification of a particular person, also constitute personal data. Personal data that has been de-identified, encrypted or pseudonymised but can be used to re ...
    04/11/2024 - 7:28 pm | View Link
  • Personal data
    Personal data, also known as personal information or personally identifiable information (PII), is any information related to an identifiable person. The abbreviation PII is widely accepted in the United States , but the phrase it abbreviates has four common variants based on personal or personally , and identifiable or identifying .
    04/11/2024 - 3:32 pm | View Link
  • What is personal data? | ICO
    What is personal data? In detail. What does the UK GDPR say? Are there categories of personal data? What about unstructured paper records? Is pseudonymised data still personal data? What about anonymised data? Is information about deceased individuals personal data? What about information about companies? What does the UK GDPR say?
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