North America
California, the U.S. state with some of the strictest data breach notifications laws, has promised to make its existing data breach notification laws even stricter by closing several loopholes related to passport and biometric data....
Apple announces it is removing the Do Not Track feature from Safari
In a recent developer post, Apple announced that it would be removing the Do Not Track setting in its Safari browser for both the mobile and PC version....
Google Maps Adds Augmented Reality Function to its Navigation
Google is set to roll out an augmented reality-based navigation feature to its Google Maps app to a small test group in the US in the coming days...
California Consumer Privacy Act Update
By ESOMAR With less than a year to go until the official entry into force of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CaCPA), ESOMAR is working on a series of articles to support you in the...
The Calgary Polling Roundup: Why Did The Mayoral Polls Go Wrong
By Kathy Frankovic It’s not often that pre-election polls go horribly awry. If anything, pre-election polling has improved over time. In retrospect, the furor over polling in the 2015 UK election and the 2016 US...
Reflections on the US polling elections
By Kathy Frankovic It’s fair to say that the American election polls in 2018 were quite successful. Newspaper headlines and stories after the midterm elections for the most part praised them. However, their tone was...