[image_with_animation image_url=”20475″ animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”] Google Postpones Plans to Remove Cookies to Late 2023 Google’s plan to remove web-tracking cookies from Chrome has generated discord among the competition, regulators, privacy zealots, and the digital-media industry. In response, the Alphabet Inc. unit announced its browser Chrome would delay plans to stop supporting user-tracking technology (third-party...

Visa’s plans to acquire financial technology startup Plaid Inc. were thwarted yesterday when the US Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ contends that Plaid, that powers Paypal’s Venmo and other payment apps, competes with Visa, and that the $5.3 billion acquisition would create a monopoly in online debit leading to higher prices and discouraging industry innovation. CardLinx Insight:...

Proposition 24, also known as the California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act of 2020, passed. The new law protects sensitive consumer financial data, allowing consumers to request personal information not be shared; requiring businesses to get permission before collecting data from consumers younger than 16; and requiring businesses to correct data inaccuracies upon request. Prop 24 also creates an agency...

EU regulators put muscle behind GDPR Google was fined $57 million by the French data protection authority, known as CNIL, for violating EU’s consumer data privacy regulation known as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that was passed in May 2018. The fine against Google relates to improper disclosure to consumers on how their data is collected and used in personalized ads...

California’s New Data Law: 6 Things You Need To Know Now California is the new frontline for consumer data privacy. As we discussed in last week’s CardLinx Webinar, California passed a sweeping new data privacy law that was hastily signed into law yesterday afternoon in California’s capital by Governor Jerry Brown. The law contains many new digital data rights for...