“The Morning Briefing” is SmartPlanet’s daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we’re reading about privacy and data retention. 1.) Is your privacy worth more than a bagel? What is your privacy worth? According to privacy researchers in Berlin, about 65 cents — or the cost of a bagel. Researchers at the German Institute for Economic Research brought 443 consumers into a lab to purchase movie tickets online from one of two sellers. One of the ticket vendors asked for more personal information than the other one, and discounts were used as a tool to see whether privacy or financial gain was more important for consumers. 2.) Privacy Regulators: U.S. and EU will take different approaches. The development of online privacy protections will be difficult to coordinate across the Atlantic Ocean, several privacy experts said Monday. The U.S. and the E.U. have very different approaches to privacy enforcement, with the U.S. focused on enforcing privacy promises that companies make, and the E.U. enforcing individual privacy rights. 3.) EU demands Google response to privacy worry. European data protection authorities have asked Google to respond to concerns about the search engine’s new privacy policy, which came into force at the beginning… Read full this story
- Privacy survey: Consumers have poor understanding of data privacy yet think they are taking proactive steps
- Google easing Play Store rules for gamified loyalty programmes
- To fix social media now focus on privacy, not platforms
- Amazon Echo's Alexa vs. Google Home's Assistant: Which smart speaker wins?
- Democrats introduce measure to boost privacy, security of health data during pandemic
- Arizona AG Sues Google Over Claims It Illegally Tracked Smartphone Users For Profit
- What is a VPN and how does it work? Your guide to internet privacy and security
- UK's competitions watchdog launches investigation into algorithms used by Google, Amazon and Facebook amid fears they are 'manipulating' lives
- Google self-driving car engineer who stole 14,000 files of trade secrets before going to work for Uber is pardoned by Donald Trump
- World Data Privacy Day: Industry players share words of wisdom
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