Author: ScrubTrace
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Shipping Secure: Should the AI get the final say?
On Tuesday I wrote about lawsuits over data sitting in systems where it wasn’t clear who could look at it, who could share it, and who was checking. Those cases are allegations and none has been decided, but the questions they raise are worth carrying into your own build. Tuesday’s post I’m building a product…
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The Flock lawsuits are about more than cameras. They’re about who can search the data.
If you’ve followed the Flock Safety story, it’s easy to file it under “cameras are creepy.” I think the lawsuits point at something more specific, and it matters for anyone whose data sits in someone else’s database, which is nearly everyone. Here is what has been filed. Everything below is an allegation. None of these…
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Is Your B2B Company a Data Broker? Three Questions to Ask
A question came up in the comments on one of my LinkedIn posts: “How would a B2B company know if it counts as a data broker?” It’s a good one, because the honest answer is that being B2B doesn’t get you out of it. Neither does being based somewhere other than California. I’m not a…
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California Just Fined a Data Broker You’ve Never Heard Of. That’s Exactly the Problem.
We’ve written twice now about California’s data broker crackdown — first about the DROP platform itself, then about CalPrivacy’s first combined CCPA-and-Delete-Act enforcement action against a broker that demanded a piece of your Social Security number just to let you opt out. Add a third name to that list, and it may be the one…
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California Fined a Data Broker for Asking You to Hand Over Your Social Security Number Just to Opt Out
We wrote a few weeks ago about California’s DROP platform — the free, state-run tool that lets any California resident send one deletion request to every registered data broker at once. The pitch is simple: one request, every broker, done. What we didn’t dwell on then is what happens when a broker doesn’t play along.…
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Connecticut and New Jersey Just Passed New Data Broker Laws. Only One of Them Is Building a Delete Button.
Two states passed major data broker laws this year: Connecticut in May and New Jersey in June. If you live in either one, you may have seen a headline calling it “sweeping” or citing eye-popping fines. What you probably didn’t see is that these two laws do almost opposite things. Only one of them is…