TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

Cillian Kieran is CEO and co-founder of Ethyca , a New York-based privacy company. “A A new law to follow” seems unlikely to have featured on many business wishlists this holiday season, particularly if that law concerned data privacy. Businesses should not view privacy and trust infrastructure requirements as burdensome.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Well, yes, because despite the convenience of modern search engines’ ability to tailor their search results to the individual, this user-tracking comes at the expense of privacy. This mass surveillance might be what improves Google’s search engine and Facebook’s ad targeting, to name just two examples, but it’s not very good for our privacy.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Privacy is a core concern in crypto. Some cryptographers think the solution to crypto’s privacy concerns lies in zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), a technique that allows for a transaction to be verified on a blockchain without the underlying data being shared. I think of it as if you are going for a meal.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Maxime Agostini is the co-founder and CEO of Sarus , a privacy company supported by Y Combinator that lets organizations leverage confidential data for analytics and machine learning. Traditionally, companies have relied upon data masking, sometimes called de-identification, to protect data privacy. Maxime Agostini. Contributor.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 12, 2023

This sets the stage for a novel phase in the employment landscape that is inclusive, privacy-focused, and compliant with the law. By utilizing Zero-knowledge proofs and Verifiable Data Registries during the onboarding process, Noxx securely verifies the work eligibility of pseudonymous talent while safeguarding their privacy.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As TC readers know, the tricky trade-off of the modern web is privacy for convenience. Berlin-based Xayn wants to change this dynamic — starting with personalized but privacy-safe web search on smartphones. Online tracking is how this ‘great intimacy robbery’ is pulled off.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

OneTrust , the 4-year old privacy platform startup from the folks who brought you AirWatch (which was acquired by VMWare for $1.5B In a world where privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA are already in play with others are in the works in the U.S. valuation to help organizations navigate online privacy rules. billion valuation today.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Six months after securing a $23 million Series A round, Ketch , a startup providing online privacy regulation and data compliance, brought in an additional $20 million in A1 funding, this time led by Acrew Capital. In 2020, Ketch introduced its data control platform for programmatic privacy, governance and security.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

tracking the spread of data legislation and the evolution of public opinion around the privacy risks of biometrics — pointing, for example, to the privacy backlash around Clearview AI. Who’s funding privacy tech? The startup raised a $1.8 Pimloc gets $1.8M for its AI-based visual search and redaction tool.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

China’s first data privacy laws go into effect on November 1, 2021. Modeled after the EU’s GDPR, the new regulations “[introduce] perhaps the most stringent set of requirements and protections for data privacy in the world,” writes Scott W. Pink, special counsel in O’Melveny’s Data Security & Privacy practice.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Williams notes that Enveil has proven those naysayers wrong by indeed finding ways to apply the concepts, along with those from other privacy-enhancing tools such as secure multiparty computation, in commercial products. Note: it’s not the only one: others include Duality , IBM, and Paris-based Zama.).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

As companies deal with a growing array of privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA, they are looking for solutions that help them not only understand their customers better, but also help them comply with those laws in a less labor-intensive way. Company founder and CEO ??Mandar

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Ethyca , the privacy-by-design technology startup that has built a unique set of APIs, detection tools and analytics to make it easier for organizations to adhere to data privacy policies like GDPR, is taking a couple of big steps today as it gets deeper into the business of data protection. Second, it has picked up an additional $7.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Sherpa , a startup from Bilbao, Spain that was an early mover in building a voice-based digital assistant and predictive search for Spanish-speaking audiences, has raised some more funding to double down on a newer focus for the startup: building out privacy-first AI services for enterprise customers. The company has closed $8.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Increasingly, conversations about big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence are going hand-in-hand with conversations about privacy and data protection. They could see that the longer-term issue would be a growing need and priority for data privacy. AI is on a collision course with privacy. ”

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 30, 2020

I got a lot of feedback on my post yesterday and a bunch of it was around the issue of privacy and whether we really care to keep our personal data private. People do care about privacy, but the sacrifices we make for privacy must come at a low enough cost that we will make them. USV TEAM POSTS:

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Meta’s shiny new bid to circumvent European Union privacy rules — by offering users a false choice between paying it a hefty monthly subscription for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram or agreeing to give up their privacy rights in exchange for free access to its social networks, meaning they will be tracked and profiled […] (..)

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Apple has fixed a years-old vulnerability in its iPhone and iPad software that undermined a privacy feature since it first debuted. Back in 2020, Apple announced a new feature in iOS 14 that would prevent nearby wireless routers and access points from gathering an Apple device’s unique MAC address.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Having alerted customers to more than 36 million such instances in 2023 alone, the solution is purpose-built to empower environmental health and safety (EHS) teams to drive changes that enhance efficiency, streamline compliance, and ultimately help prevent workplace incidents without compromising worker privacy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

California’s Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) is preparing for its next trick: Putting guardrails on AI.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Digital lenders that share personal data of loan defaulters, with third parties, risk license withdrawal in Kenya after lawmakers added a clause – granting the banking regulator the mandate to revoke permits of operators who breach customer confidentiality – to the new law passed by the country’s National Assembly. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Israeli startup Mine made a name for itself a few years ago with a tool designed for consumers to quickly run an audit of their data privacy situation. All rights reserved.

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OurCrowd

MAY 19, 2021

Kryon®, international innovators in user-friendly enterprise automation, robotic process automation (RPA) and process discovery, announced it has earned the ISO 27701 certification, a data privacy extension that offers a framework for compliance with the EU’s GDPR, California’s CCPA, and other global data privacy standards.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

A joint statement signed by regulators at a dozen international privacy watchdogs, including the U.K.’s ’s ICO, Canada’s OPC and Hong Kong’s OPCPD, has urged mainstream social media platforms to protect users’ public posts from scraping — warning they face a legal responsibility to do so in most markets.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Elon Musk’s X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, is facing a new privacy complaint in Europe related to its ad targeting tools. The complaint, which is being lodged with the Dutch data protection authority by privacy rights not-for-profit noyb, accuses X of failing to enforce its own its advertising guidelines.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

WhatsApp is rolling out a new “secret codes” feature that adds another layer of privacy to your locked conversations on the messaging platform.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

Privacy breaches are not only bad for users, but also costly for tech companies. billion , and earlier this year Twitter had to pay $150 million for misrepresenting the security and privacy of user data. Privado solves these issues connects with source code management tools including GitHub and scanning code for privacy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Since, the data privacy startup has tripled its revenue, doubled its employee base and secured more than 50 new customers, including AT&T, Disney , Omnicom and Merkle. It helps organizations alleviate security concerns, according to the startup, and is compliant with all current privacy laws, including GDPR.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Uber played fast and loose with its security and privacy practices for years, then tried to cover up a massive data breach. These data-hungry tech companies have compromised our security, eroded our privacy, tracked us, sold our data, lost our data, monopolized the competition, driven out small businesses and put entire populations at risk.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 27, 2022

This makes the technology poorly suited for criminal … The post Privacy-Protecting Crypto Airdrops with Zero Knowledge Proofs appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. Generally, all anyone needs to view the entire holdings and financial history associated with a given account is its public address.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 23, 2024

Celebrating Angie Singer Keating’s Appointment as Board President of Ben Franklin Technology Partners Angie holds prestigious certifications including CISA, CISM, and CRISC, which underscore her deep knowledge in IT security, privacy, and risk management.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

“What we are trying to do with Piiano is to — because data breaches are a matter of time — bring the privacy risk to zero,” Dabah said. “And this is the name of the game: it’s about the privacy because hackers will have a way into your system. Now we need to do something about the system.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Imagine a world where no one’s privacy is breached, no faces are scanned into a gargantuan database and no privacy laws are broken. The process is fraught with privacy issues, and is costly and time-consuming. Who’s funding privacy tech? This is a world that is fast approaching.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’ve applied this lesson about trust-building conversations to an extremely important aspect of my role as the chief legal officer at Foursquare: Conducting “The Privacy Talk.”. What exactly is ‘The Privacy Talk’? RFIs may ask a lot of questions about privacy compliance, information security, and data ethics.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Enter Securiti , a startup launched in 2019, originally with the idea of focusing on one aspect of data control, data privacy. But the company had the vision of building a broad platform of services to deal with not just privacy, but also data security, governance and compliance.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Immuta , a provider of data privacy and access controls services, today announced that it closed a $100 million Series E round at a $1 billion valuation, bringing the company’s total funding to $267 million. Immuta’s competitors include TrustArc, which helps companies implement privacy and compliance programs.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Still, this controversy has had the positive effect of highlighting the importance of protecting consumers’ online privacy. The ongoing debate about online privacy and the use of personal data will continue and should result in better privacy control overall. However, Congress might step attempt some limited data privacy rules.

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