Category Archives: Privacy & Compliance
WhatsApp Pushes Privacy Update to Comply With Irish Ruling
WhatsApp is adding more details to its privacy policy and flagging that information for European users, after Irish regulators slapped the chat service with a record fine for breaching strict EU data privacy rules.
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Solving the Right to be Forgotten Problem
The Right to be Forgotten (technically the right to erasure or for users to have personal data removed from service providers’ records) creates a big problem for suppliers. This right is becoming standard across the new global wave of data protection a… Continue reading Solving the Right to be Forgotten Problem
Compliance-as-a-Service Platform Laika Raises $35 Million
Compliance-as-a-Service platform Laika this week announced that it has raised $35 million in Series B funding, which brings the total raised by the company to $48 million.
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Enterprise Data Privacy Startup Piiano Emerges From Stealth Mode
Tel Aviv, Israel-based Piiano emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday with $9 million in seed funding and a data engineering solution designed to help enterprises centralize and secure personal and other sensitive information.
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Organizations Can Now Try Out End-to-End Encrypted Microsoft Teams Calls
Microsoft this week announced that organizations can now enable their employees to make one-to-one calls on Teams that are protected by end-to-end encryption.
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Snap’s Stock Drops as iPhone Privacy Controls Pinch Ad Sales
Snapchat’s corporate parent disclosed Thursday that its ad sales are being hurt by a privacy crackdown that rolled out on Apple’s iPhones earlier this year, raising investor fears that the app’s financial growth is going into a tailspin.
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Customer Data Privacy Provider Skyflow Raises $45 Million
Customer data privacy company Skyflow today announced that it has raised $45 million in Series B funding. Over the past 18 months, the company has raised $70 million.
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Has Facebook Sidestepped GDPR’s User Consent Requirements?
Private Data Sharing Firm TripleBlind Raises $24 Million in Series A Funding
Private data sharing solutions provider TripleBlind on Monday announced raising $24 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round, which brings the total raised by the company to more than $32 million.
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