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TripleBlind Receives Investment from Mayo Clinic, Expanding Current Collaboration

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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

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b'KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, TripleBlind announced that it expanded its collaboration with Mayo Clinic , which invested in a seed extension round, the only investor participating.

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b'KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, TripleBlind announced that it expanded its collaboration with Mayo Clinic , which invested in a seed extension round, the only investor participating.
TripleBlind recently announced that it raised $8.2 million in a significantly oversubscribed seed funding round.
TripleBlind is not accessing any Mayo Clinic data.\n\xe2\x80\x9cTripleBlind\xe2\x80\x99s API-driven virtual exchange solution accelerates how organizations develop, test and deploy AI solutions in healthcare, and leverage third party data amidst heavily regulated privacy concerns,\xe2\x80\x9d said Riddhiman Das, co-founder and CEO of TripleBlind.
It unlocks the estimated 105 petabytes of data stored by enterprises today that are inaccessible and unmonetized due to privacy concerns and regulations.

BigID Launches First Freemium Privacy-on-Demand Platform with BigID.me

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Monday, April 26, 2021

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b'NEW YORK and TEL AVIV, Israel, April 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- BigID , the leading data intelligence platform for privacy, protection, and perspective, today is introducing BigID.me, the first freemium, pay-as-you-go, privacy-on-demand SaaS for companies without dedicated privacy offices.

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b'NEW YORK and TEL AVIV, Israel, April 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- BigID , the leading data intelligence platform for privacy, protection, and perspective, today is introducing BigID.me, the first freemium, pay-as-you-go, privacy-on-demand SaaS for companies without dedicated privacy offices.
said Jules Polonetsky, CEO of the Future of Privacy Forum.
Customers deploy BigID to proactively discover, manage, protect, and get more value from their regulated, sensitive, and personal data across their data landscape.
Find out more at http://bigid.com .\nView original content to download multimedia: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bigid-launches-first-freemium-pr...\n'

Privacy Commissioner Follows Up on the Suspected Data Breach Relating to Clubhouse Users

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Saturday, April 24, 2021

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Date: 11 April 2021

Privacy Commissioner Follows Up onthe Suspected Data Breach Relating to Clubhouse Users

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong (PCPD), noted overseas media reports on the suspected data breach relating to the users of the audio-based social media platform Clubhouse.
Given that the personal data at stake may include names, usernames and user IDs on social media, etc., the PCPD is contacting Clubhouse to ascertain whether the people affected in the incident include Hong Kong users and the personal data involved.
The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong (Privacy Commissioner), Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling, appeals to Clubhouse users to be vigilant about potential theft of personal data.
If they are in doubt about whether their personal data have been leaked, they may make enquiries with the social media platform concerned or make enquiries/complaints to the PCPD (telephone: 2827 2827; email: [email protected]
).To protect personal data privacy, users are advised to take the following measures: -

Facebook Provides Users with an Online Form for Enquiry of the Reports on Suspected Data Breach

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Saturday, April 24, 2021

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Date: 13 April 2021

Facebook Provides Users with an Online Form for Enquiry of the Reports on Suspected Data Breach

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong (PCPD), has commenced a compliance check on the reported data breach incident relating to the users of the social media platform Facebook.
According to Facebook, these numbers are measured by the phone numbers with the international dialing code for Hong Kong (i.e.
+852, not necessarily the users actual locations) disclosed in the public dataset and have not been validated by Facebook.
Facebook further indicated that the data were obtained by malicious actors by scraping publicly accessible information from the Facebook platform prior to September 2019.

Modus Announces Data Privacy and Governance Solutions Practice

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Thursday, April 22, 2021

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Modus brings "real world" eDiscovery, privacy, and compliance insight & solutions into the world of Information Governance.

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Modus brings "real world" eDiscovery, privacy, and compliance insight & solutions into the world of Information Governance.
Organizations need a culture strategy to stay ahead of this demanding new world of Data Privacy and Governance.
Modus\'s Data Privacy and Governance solutions enable organizations to monitor and search an enterprise landscape, quickly retrieving the information necessary to conduct an inquiry or investigation.\nModus Data Privacy and Governance solutions are designed to help you:\nMitigate risk and provide a secure, facilitated experience with your users\nModus Data Privacy and Governance solutions provide you with:\nTo achieve ultimate control of their enterprise data, organizations must first understand what they have in their environment.
Modus Data Privacy and Governance solutions provide this insight through Advisory and Consulting services, Professional and Managed Services, and a suite of technologies that can be installed on-premise or SaaS.

VPNOverview.com Report: Many Ramadan apps spark privacy concerns and often pose substantial risks

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Thursday, April 22, 2021

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b'NIJMEGEN, Netherlands, April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- According to research conducted by VPNOverview.com, a significant number of Ramadan apps pose privacy concerns for their users.

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b'NIJMEGEN, Netherlands, April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- According to research conducted by VPNOverview.com, a significant number of Ramadan apps pose privacy concerns for their users.
This includes a popular app which has been downloaded more than five million times worldwide.\nOnly one in 10 apps expressly indicate that they comply with European privacy legislation (GDPR).
During Ramadan it is of course very useful to be able to view prayer times through an app.
It therefore does not hurt to look for a prayer app that puts a strong emphasis on privacy.

VPNOverview.com Report: Many Ramadan apps spark privacy concerns and often pose substantial risks

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Thursday, April 22, 2021

b'NIJMEGEN, Netherlands, April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- According to research conducted by VPNOverview.com, a significant number of Ramadan apps pose privacy concerns for their users.

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b'NIJMEGEN, Netherlands, April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- According to research conducted by VPNOverview.com, a significant number of Ramadan apps pose privacy concerns for their users.
This includes a popular app which has been downloaded more than five million times worldwide.\nOnly one in 10 apps expressly indicate that they comply with European privacy legislation (GDPR).
During Ramadan it is of course very useful to be able to view prayer times through an app.
It therefore does not hurt to look for a prayer app that puts a strong emphasis on privacy.

Unity Dramatically Reduces AI Training Time, Budgets With Launch of Synthetic Datasets

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Monday, April 19, 2021

Computer Vision solutions providers can now purchase bespoke datasets for their AI training needs all while maintaining strict privacy and regulatory standards.\nThis press release features multimedia.

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Computer Vision solutions providers can now purchase bespoke datasets for their AI training needs all while maintaining strict privacy and regulatory standards.\nThis press release features multimedia.
This can be useful in numerous cases such as when privacy requirements limit data availability, or dictate how it can be used.
One common use for synthetic data is for testing a pre-released product, when data either does not exist or is not available to the testers.
Synthetic training data is also a major requirement for machine learning algorithms.

BIGtoken Partners With CasperLabs to Bring its Data Marketplace to the Casper Network

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Monday, April 19, 2021

BIGtoken believes data privacy is a human right and its plan to put users\xe2\x80\x99 data on the blockchain reemphasizes this commitment.

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BIGtoken believes data privacy is a human right and its plan to put users\xe2\x80\x99 data on the blockchain reemphasizes this commitment.
BIGtoken users will be able to own their data and have the tools to control how their data is stored, shared, and exchanged for value in an efficient, transparent, and ethical way.
\xe2\x80\x9cBoth Casper and BIGtoken are deeply committed to enabling users to own and monetize their own data in a decentralized environment.
With millions of registered users already benefiting from the BIGtoken platform, we see the opportunity to quickly scale our operations on Casper, making our marketplace more accessible to more parties.\xe2\x80\x9d\nCasperLabs , the developer of the Casper Network, provides professional services and support for organizations building on the Casper Network.

Privacy Leader DeleteMe Adds New Features, Custom Data Removal Requests to Combat Increasing Threats to Online Privacy

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Monday, April 19, 2021

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b'BOSTON, April 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Online privacy leader DeleteMe today announces the launch of a new Custom Removal Request feature and improved customer dashboard for all new and existing DeleteMe users, bringing increased power and transparency to their flagship privacy management platform.\nToday, privacy threats against Americans are on the rise.

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b'BOSTON, April 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Online privacy leader DeleteMe today announces the launch of a new Custom Removal Request feature and improved customer dashboard for all new and existing DeleteMe users, bringing increased power and transparency to their flagship privacy management platform.\nToday, privacy threats against Americans are on the rise.
"Unfortunately, most Americans still don\'t realize just how much of their personal data is currently for sale, and our new features make it clear and easy to understand from the day you sign up.
"\nPerhaps the most exciting feature of the launch is the new Online Removal Request tool, which breaks new ground in online privacy.
This feature empowers users with the full force of the DeleteMe removal team to pursue websites and individuals who publish private information without their permission.\n"This is definitely our new favorite feature," Shavell adds.