{"id":5631,"date":"2013-01-31T14:50:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T14:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/jan\/31\/data-privacy-day-reminds-us-of-the-importance-of-transparency\/"},"modified":"2013-01-31T14:50:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T14:50:02","slug":"data-privacy-day-reminds-us-of-the-importance-of-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/data-privacy-day-reminds-us-of-the-importance-of-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Privacy Day reminds us of the importance of transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Luca Schiavoni, Analyst, Regulation, Ovum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The celebration of the Data Privacy Day on January 28, 2013 came at a moment when awareness of the importance of the matter is higher than it has ever been. However, many obstacles get in the way of full data privacy, including companies&rsquo; unwillingness to fully disclose what they do with their users&rsquo; data, consumers&rsquo; unwillingness to actually read lengthy terms and conditions pages when signing up to a service, and the fact that some companies&rsquo; business models rely on their users&rsquo; data to distribute targeted advertising. <\/p>\n<p>Regulation in this area is often quite confusing and obsolete, and it can be it unclear whether the rules that apply are those of the service provider&rsquo;s country or the user&rsquo;s country. There is a clear need for coordinated approaches between regulators around the world.<\/p>\n<h3>The rise of OTT services is prompting policymakers to take action &#8230;<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luca Schiavoni, Analyst, Regulation, Ovum<br \/>\nThe celebration of the Data Privacy Day on January 28, 2013 came at a moment when awareness of the importance of the matter is higher than it has ever been. However, many obstacles get in the way of full data p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}