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How close are we from entering into a world where cash is no longer accepted? Do we truly understand the benefits and implications of completely going cashless and relying solely on financial transactions that are intimately connected with our data? Dr. Shelle Santana, Associate Professor at the Harvard University Business School, answers these questions and more on this episode of the >Better Series podcast.

After years of debate, discussion, and revisions, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) -- a law that gives consumers a wide range of rights and creates a series of obligations for businesses -- finally began enforcement on July 1st. Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, Deputy Director of BBB National Programs' Privacy Initiatives, joined Julian Flamant, Associate at Hogan Lovells US LLP, and Heather Federman VP of Privacy and Policy at BigID to discuss what the CCPA means for businesses inside and outside of California.

The July 16 decision from the CJEU, known as Schrems II, addressed two mechanisms for transferring EU individuals’ personal data outside the EU. As the situation continues to develop, and before making changes to their practices around international data transfers, businesses should pause to review their data flows, contracts, and substantive commitments, and their current chain of compliance and accountability for data received from the EU.

To confront coronavirus, governments across the globe have devised approaches for tracing its spread and quarantining individuals known to be carriers, also known as “contact tracing.” While almost all strategies rely on traditional means of contacting and recording the movements of infected individuals, many employ modern communications technologies: sensors, Bluetooth, GPS, thermal recognition, facial-recognition, and geofencing.