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Microsoft’s Julie Brill backs Washington privacy bill: ‘I would urge you not to miss this opportunity’

While many big tech companies are reticent about the seemingly inevitable tide of privacy regulations headed our way, Microsoft has… Read More

Washington state considers new privacy law to regulate data collection and facial recognition tech

Lawmakers in Washington state are pushing for a new privacy law that would attempt to give consumers more control over… Read More

Microsoft reportedly testing a tool for managing and deleting personal data collected online

Microsoft appears to be testing a tool that would allow internet users the manage the data websites and apps collect… Read More

How Fred Hutch spinout LabKey bootstrapped its way to compete in health care’s big data

Thirteen years ago, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center spun out a small startup with a mission to help researchers get… Read More

Tech Moves: RealSelf snags general counsel from Avvo; Tableau loses a data evangelist; and more

—Cosmetic treatment review site RealSelf is lawyering up with Josh King as the company’s first general counsel. King is leaving… Read More

With Dems in control of the House, now is the time for states to pressure Congress to act on privacy

Editor’s note: Alex Alben is the Chief Privacy Officer for the State of Washington. He discussed privacy, data, and smart… Read More

Oregon senator proposes privacy regulations with prison and revenue penalties for data misuse

Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, introduced a privacy bill Thursday that would level hefty penalties against technology companies… Read More

Rep. Suzan DelBene and colleagues push for U.S. data privacy regulation

Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA) is adding her voice to a growing chorus of U.S. lawmakers calling for stronger consumer protections online.… Read More

Hackers access up to 50M Facebook accounts exploiting ‘vulnerability’ in platform’s code

Hackers were able to access nearly 50 million Facebook accounts by exploiting a security vulnerability, the company said Friday. In… Read More

Privacy at an inflection point: Why the time has come for meaningful U.S. regulation

Editor’s note: Alex Alben is the Chief Privacy Officer for the State of Washington. He will be speaking at the… Read More

Steve Ballmer’s USAFacts launches new Voter Center to arm Americans with data for midterms

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s nonprofit group USAFacts today debuted a new Voter Center, an online resource that shows the positions… Read More

Amazon warns onerous privacy regulations could hinder innovation in Senate hearing

Amazon and other tech titans have accepted the reality that a federal data privacy law is on the horizon. To… Read More

Geek of the Week: Microsoft’s Raghu Ramakrishnan geeks out on data, how we use it and secure it

He’s been a professor and a chief scientist, a founder, a technical fellow and a chief technology officer. Through it… Read More

NetMotion launches an IT platform to keep tabs on corporate smartphones

Smartphones have been around for a while, but IT departments are still trying to grapple with a challenge they’ve created:… Read More

Amazon targets small businesses, takes aim at Tableau and Microsoft Power BI with new QuickSight pricing model

Amazon Web Services said Thursday that it will offer QuickSight, its data analytics and visualization software, to companies and organizations on… Read More

Race to the GDPR finish line: How US tech companies are preparing for Europe’s stringent new privacy law

For months, companies like Seattle-based mobile payments startup Remitly, have been mapping out their entire inventory of user data, updating privacy policies,… Read More

Data leak exposes 48M user profiles, scraped by startup from Facebook, Zillow and others, researcher says

A cybersecurity firm called UpGuard has tied Facebook — as well as other popular consumer sites — to another data leak.… Read More

What the tools Facebook built for Europe’s new privacy regulations mean for users everywhere

Facebook fatigue may be setting in after weeks of headlines, hours of Congressional testimony, and a deluge of updates that… Read More

Starbucks picked an odd time to force WiFi customers to cough up personal data

With all the sensitive news about Facebook and privacy hovering menacingly over the Internet this week, it seems an odd… Read More

Facebook now says data from up to 87M users was shared with Cambridge Analytica, far more than previously reported

The number of Facebook users whose data was illegitimately shared with Republican-backed political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica was bigger than… Read More

Microsoft and DOJ ask Supreme Court to dismiss case involving customer’s overseas data

Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice have asked the Supreme Court to drop a case that has pitted the… Read More

Microsoft met with skepticism from some Supreme Court justices in overseas data case

In oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, Microsoft argued that the federal government is not authorized to demand… Read More

‘Global chaos’ or just a ‘click of the mouse’? Supreme Court set to hear Microsoft vs. US in overseas customer data dispute

A showdown between Microsoft and the U.S. government will take place at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, and it… Read More

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