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Retailers: What to Consider as You Offer Virtual Try-On Features

Retail TouchPoints

Virtual try-on technology introduces important privacy obligations. While restrictions and requirements vary somewhat between the two states, both require providing notice and obtaining consent before any collection of biometric identifiers and impose restrictions on retention and sharing. What to Look Out For.

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Have privacy breaches changed the way retailers approach customer data?

Inside Retail

But with strong financial penalties for breaching legislation around consumer privacy – such as the Privacy Act in Australia and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe – as well as the reputational cost around a data breach, he believes that the approach to data collection is starting to shift.

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The Benefits of Prepaid Top-Up Cards for Big Brands

Retail TouchPoints

Increased Levels of Data Privacy First, the promise to consumers is that their details are kept secure. This can be a powerful proposition as consumers are also growing more concerned over data privacy and becoming more aware of the potential risks of sharing personal information.

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Data Privacy and Ad Tracking: The Real-World Implications for Businesses

Retail TouchPoints

The world has gone digital, and as a result, global concern regarding data privacy has skyrocketed. Against this backdrop, tech giants like Apple and Meta continue to weigh the best methods for providing privacy controls on behalf of their users, all while remaining mindful of potential blowback to the ad revenue that supports their business.

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The Dark Side of the Surveillance Economy and What Retailers Should Do About It

Retail TouchPoints

In recent years the price of these “free” tools has come into focus: loss of privacy, mental health issues, overconsumption that is having a grave environmental impact, political unrest and human rights violations, to name just a few. Hoping customers don’t notice] is a short-term play; it’s not a way to build long-term consumer confidence.

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Children’s Advertising Rules Apply in the Metaverse Too, CARU Says.

Hunton Andrews Kurth

CARU, the Children’s Advertising Review Unit of BBB National programs, issued a compliance warning last week reminding industry that the self-regulating body on children’s advertising and privacy intends to enforce its advertising guidelines in the metaverse, just like in the real world.

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PetSmart Suit Accuses Retailer of Mishandling Employees’ Personal Data via Voiceprint Collection

Retail TouchPoints

A former Illinois-based employee of PetSmart has filed a putative class action against the pet goods retailer, accusing the company of violating the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by collecting employees’ voiceprints in ways that could leave them open to identity theft. The case of Steven Stegmann v.