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What We Know About You: Welcome to the Surveillance State
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What We Know About You: Welcome to the Surveillance State

What We Know About You: Welcome to the Surveillance State Issue 152, March 21, 2024 We recently read a report in The Wall Street Journal that got our attention. Commercial data brokers are selling their third-party data to the government. If you’re an optimist, you would think this could be a good thing. Our intelligence agencies and the defense department may be able to identify patterns that could predict and prevent an unfortunate event – terrorism, for example. But honestly,…

Kevin Novak
March 20, 2024
map of the European Union
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How the European Union Is Ahead on Privacy

How the European Union Is Ahead on Privacy Issue 126, September 14, 2023 It has been over a year since we summarized privacy policy actions (or inactions) that will impact you as well as your organization. Why haven’t we written more on the topic? To be honest, there has been little if any action here in the US at the Federal level despite continued news about incidents that result in negative consequences across our society. While inaction continues at the…

Kevin Novak
September 14, 2023
Controlling Individual Privacy and Data
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Is Your Organization Ready to Comply with Privacy Protections? – Ideas and Innovations from 2040

Is Your Organization Ready to Comply with Privacy Protections? Issue 84, December 1, 2022 A wise man once told us when thinking about a significant life event, “We can be prepared, but we’ll never be ready.” So, it may be a stretch to connect mortality with privacy laws, but we would argue that most organizations are neither prepared nor ready to deal with the privacy changes at the state level in the United States and countrywide in many countries around…

Kevin Novak
December 1, 2022
Breaking News: Important Privacy Changes – Ideas + Innovations from 2040
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Breaking News: Important Privacy Changes – Ideas + Innovations from 2040

Breaking News: Important Privacy Changes Issue 63: July 7, 2022 As we mentioned in our Privacy Regulation Update: The Doors Are Locking on User Data newsletter last week, over the next two weeks, we will share a curated list of 2021/22 articles to assist you and your organization in conducting some deep and critical thinking on how you collect, manage and leverage data. We will also review tips on how you adapt to the limitations and restrictions set in place…

Kevin Novak
July 7, 2022
Privacy Regulation Update: The Doors Are Locking on User Data – Ideas + Innovations from 2040
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Privacy Regulation Update: The Doors Are Locking on User Data – Ideas + Innovations from 2040

Privacy Regulation Update: The Doors Are Locking on User Data Issue 62: June 30, 2022 We have frequently written about how the digital privacy and data environment outside of the US is being transformed as a result of international government efforts to enact policies and regulations that seek to protect its citizens and their privacy. The EU community is leading the way on these initiatives, and we caution all organizations to be aware and forewarned about the changes as they…

Kevin Novak
June 30, 2022