Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2025

In July 2024, the FTC requested information from eight companies offering surveillance pricing products and services that incorporate data about consumers characteristics and behavior. Understand how the company will be using your data Block web tracking wherever you can.

Surveillance 120

Surveillance Artificial Intelligence Consumer Protection Retail 120

Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently asked several buy now, pay later, or BNPL, providers for information related to some concerns it has about short-term installment plans. The CFPB also said it was exploring questions about “data harvesting” from “valuable payment histories.”

Identity Theft 119

Identity Theft Consumer Protection Data collection Accountability 119

Centraleyes

JUNE 10, 2024

For example, an e-commerce company that collects customer information (like names, addresses, and payment details) to process orders and manage customer accounts, is considered a controller because in this case the company decides what data to collect, how it will be used (e.g., How is compliance achieved?

Data collection 52

Data collection Data privacy Consumer Protection Data breaches 52

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Vendors’ attention is increasingly fragmented across various data-collecting and transactional platforms. As if things were not difficult enough, data collection in more states and countries is becoming stricter, with increased consumer protection laws leaving retailers applying tighter data privacy to their digital platforms.

Retail 71

Retail Data breaches Digital transformation Risk 71

Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Vendors’ attention is increasingly fragmented across various data-collecting and transactional platforms. As if things were not difficult enough, data collection in more states and countries is becoming stricter, with increased consumer protection laws leaving retailers applying tighter data privacy to their digital platforms.

Retail 64

Retail Data breaches Digital transformation Risk 64

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 13, 2021

“Second-party” data is essentially the first-party data of another organization. Marketers frequently purchase or share first-party data from another partner organization. Data collection red flags. All of this leads us to “third-party” data. E-commerce impacted.

eCommerce 113

eCommerce Data collection Advertising Consumer Protection 113