Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Feeding the AI Beast - Taming the Google Auto-complete, Related Searches and Trends

INTRODUCTION: Live Webinar on “Feeding the AI Beast” & owning your “Virtual You” & The 20 Ways to Remove a Yelp, or any other Website!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPHHXR6l7gw

Reputation Saviors owner, Chris Edwards has a history of innovating reputation management, online shopping and changing the Internet for 25 years. Were now at a time when Information (AI) is worth more than Oil; and $2T Apple just announced their “Google Killer” search engine with autocomplete-style results produced by Apple. Today, Google Trends identified the key-word “Election Prediction Models” as the top Elections related key-word, reaching 100% of their scale. November 1^st 2020, the Wikipedia for “Search Engine Manipulation Effect” has been updated with studies and sources on the 2016 election of changing the minds of undecided voters by as much as 20-80% just prior to an election. In this presentation, we'll give you the endurance of Lance Armstrong, the beauty of Wilhelmina, the intelligence of IBM, the money of Apple and power of the Presidency. If your not here at this webinar today, your in the wrong place!

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1 Google Auto-Complete & Search Suggestion AI on Websites like Yelp & Instagram

2 Using and Controlling the GAS for Political Affairs, Events, Future Prospects and You

1A) GOOGLE TRENDS ON ELECTION-RELATED KEY-WORDS

2 Using the GAS to control the suggestions for your personal name or wrong name

3 Using the GAS to control the suggestions for your company or brands

4 Using the GAS for Advanced Search Engine Optimization

5 Using the GAS for and in your press releases for SEO, Google News, Image, Video, Podcast,

6 Using GAS to control when office or you move to a different location

7 Using the GAS for keyword or name not found

8 How to craft your company name and website based on GAS

9 Real world examples like Janet Jackson & Zenaida Gonzales

10 Case studies like Disc Jockeys, Perfume Stores, Syracuse Basketball & Plastic Surgery

11 How to examples of word of mouth to get people to search

12 Google AI Training

13 Training Google AI

Facebook Page on “Feeding the AI Beast” https://facebook.com/feedingtheaibeast

1A) GOOGLE ON ELECTION-RELATED ISSUES & KEY-WORDS

CURRENT NEWS:

October 28^th 2020 The $2 Trillion company, Apple starts displaying its own search results in iOS 14 as the iPhone maker steps up efforts to build a Google killer. “This shows an Apple-generated list of search suggestions rather than Google results and also include autocomplete-style results produced by Apple.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8888529/Apple-starts-displaying-search-results-iOS-14-latest-build-Google-killer.html

October 27 2020 Google launching YouTube “information panels” for election results in Google search to curb misinformation

https://www.cnet.com/news/youtube-to-link-to-election-results-in-video-and-search-pages-to-curb-misinformation/

August 3^rd 2020 President Trumps request for Social Media on criterial for Take Down Requests.

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN24Z1WD

May 28^th & July 28^th 2020 "A small handful of social media monopolies controls a vast portion of all public and private communications in the United States," he claimed. "They've had unchecked power to censor, restrict, edit, shape, hide, alter, virtually any form of communication between private citizens and large public audiences."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/politics/trump-twitter-social-media-executive-order/index.html

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN24Z1WD

Elections related predictions

We don't allow predictions that could be interpreted as a position for or against any candidate or political party, nor which could be interpreted as claims about the participation in or integrity of the electoral process.

Trump & Biden's use of the GAS issues about candidates

https://www.wired.com/story/democrat-joe-biden-president-google-immigration-education-gun-control/

A Google Spokesperson's statement to Business Insider dismissed the idea that the search engine intended to impress a political agenda on its billion plus users.

"Search is not used to set a political agenda and we don't bias our results toward any political ideology. Every year, we issue hundreds of improvements to our algorithms to ensure they surface high-quality content in response to users' queries. We continually work to improve Google Search and we never rank search results to manipulate political sentiment," read the statement.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-vows-to-address-google-search-allegedly-rigging-media-against-him-2018-8

“They are controlling what we can & cannot see. This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/08/29/trump-complained-about-his-google-results-good-thing-he-didnt-try-that-search-europe/

Google’s algorithm is still somewhat of a mystery, and results may be influenced by cookies, past search requests or location. Google denies that it does. “Search is not used to set a political agenda and we do not bias our results toward any political ideology,” the company said last week. “We never rank search results to manipulate political sentiment.”

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2162143/donald-trump-claimed-googles-search-engine-rigged-what-do-we-really-know

More than 100 factors – from where the user is located to how recently a given webpage was updated – contribute to how highly a certain result may appear. In addition, the company’s famous PageRank algorithm, developed by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, plays a role in determining the authoritativeness of a given source. For example, Google’s tendency to favour recency, or “freshness”, incentivises companies to create their webpages with metadata keywords that the search engine can easily read. If the results differ from person to person, that could be because they may be using a browser in incognito mode, which deletes the cookies and other third-party tracking software. Or they may be searching from a different location, triggering Google’s reflex to return local results. They may also simply be performing a search slightly later in time than another, said Christo Wilson, a computer science professor at Northeastern University who has studied Google’s search practices for six years.

President Trump plans to launch antitrust suit against Google

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSYSs-S9XCw

Can I Change My Vote? Trump Tweets 'Go Do it' as Google Searches Spike

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-tweets-can-i-change-my-vote-election-1542364

Google blocks some election-related GAS key-word suggestions in April 2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/911915056/google-will-block-its-autocomplete-suggestions-for-some-election-related-searche

In a blog post, Google said it was removing suggestions that could be viewed as being for or against a particular candidate or party. The search engine also is blocking suggestions that could be viewed as claims about "the integrity or legitimacy of electoral processes."

https://blog.google/products/search/our-latest-investments-information-quality-search-and-news

On the same day as Google's announcement, Twitter said it was introducing restrictions on elected-related posts, including to tweets claiming victory for a candidate ahead of official results or attempts to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/10/911320052/twitters-new-rules-aim-to-prevent-confusion-around-the-2020-vote

Facebook also recently announced stricter policies around election-related posts as well as on new political ads in the week before Election Day. Twitter, YouTube and Facebook removed both legitimate and not legitimate information about CoVid-19.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/28/896166651/twitter-restricts-donald-trump-jr-s-account-over-covid-19-misinformation

GOOGLE TRENDS ON ELECTION-RELATED KEY-WORDS

- “Google Trends does not filter controversial topics.” - Google w/commentary

- Google trends presidential candidates 2020" – Zero results in search in quotes, missed opportunities

October 28th 2020 – Searches for who will win... Reached 100%, only 4 results in quotes, 226 filtered

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=who+is+predicted+to+win+the+2020+president+election&date=now+7-d&geo=US

- "who is predicted to be the next president..." No 2020 GAS suggestion on 10/25

- #1 suggestion for “who is predicted to win”, but "who will be the next president of the united states in 2020" – Only 10 results in Google Search

Contact for 1-5 day Training Courses: Chris Edwards, Reputation Savior Inc, 407-464-0036

http://reputationsaviors.com or email info@reputationsaviors.com

Monday, February 24, 2020

VirtualU.net Reputation Management Conference Las Vegas 2020 Part 2 - SEO Seminar Courses are Hands-On for 1-4 Day Training Classes all-in-one Digital Marketing, ORM, SEO, SMM, Data Removals, Privacy & Legal

Reputation Management Conference Las Vegas 2020 - SEO Seminar Courses are Hands-On for 1-4 Day Training Classes all-in-one Digital Marketing, ORM, SEO, SMM, Data Removals, Privacy & Legal

Why us? VirtualU's ORM & SEO seminar shows you how to own your “Virtual You” by controlling the message, the Internet and your data at the same time. We have innovated tried and true techniques for over 25 years that resulted in 1000+ success stories for our customers. Whether its your personal reputation, brand or company, we show you the real value these techniques from real customers.

Training Classes will be taught by Chris Edwards, the founder of Reputation Savior Inc in 2010, VirtualU in 2018 & DoctorU in 2019. VirtualU “Virtual You” which launched on May 1^st 2018 in response to the privacy and personal data issues revealed at the Facebook Congressional Hearings. This effort by our team has resulted in more avenues, new guidelines and new laws to control your data in 2020; which will be presented in this all-in-one course.

Since 2010, Reputation Savior has lead the reputation management and search engine optimization markets, and executed them properly, the first time. In 2012, we produced a DIY Kit for those who want to do their own ORM or SEO in-house using our 50 page E-Book, Video tutorials & Vital trade-secret documents. In 2018, we added a live reputation monitoring APP, personal data removals from over 100+ sites, advanced SEO with Google Auto-Suggest controls and legal help. The 1 day course will include the full presentation of our $500 DIY Kit materials; which will be provided to you with your attendance to the class at no charge.

https://virtualu.net/about-us/

Seminar Features

1 day class for 8 hours and 4 days over 1-4 weeks, 32+ hours of total training
Training follows our DIY Kit e-book and course handouts. Bring a computer.
Real-life scenarios, Real customer case studies, Real examples & Live results
Get real life situational analysis, problem solving, Q&A & getting you started

Seminar Benefits:

Get all-in-one course from Innovators in ORM since 1996, SEO 1999 & Shop.com 2001
See real customer case studies that increase Sales, Reputation, Brand, Reviews & Views
Getting started now for you or your business on each technique with hands-on training
Take home solutions, unlimited potential using your free time and increase market share

Course & Class Objectives:

Become a Digital Marketing, Reputation Management & SEO expert certified by industry

Acquire advanced knowledge from our experts with 25 years of the Industry experience

Learn tools, technologies, processes to become perfectly efficient and maximize effectiveness

Learn how to control your online brand to maximum friends, likes, followers, visits and sales

Learn the various Metrics, reporting and tracking mechanisms for each marketing campaign

How to manage the top 200 social media sites - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc
Learn “market making”. New product strategies. Taking over your local search market.
Protecting against online attacks, consumer complaints, product reviews, negative publicity
“You own Your Data” & Your Reputation (Facebook Hearings). Learn it, Live it, Love it!

Who is this course designed for:This course can be taken by Digital marketing, Social media, marketing, website and internet marketing professionals, high profile personalities, business owners, office managers & CEO's.

Course Prerequisites:

Preferred basic knowledge of computers, internet browsing, MS office, minor html and minor picture, audio and video editing. If not, you will be instructed how to download and use them in the process of the getting started course.

Class Dates:

32 Hours Advanced & Comprehensive Training Schedule

4 Weeks | 8 hours training each day in 2 sessions
9 AM – 6+ PM US Pacific time each day (all day)
1 Day on March 7th, 2020 – 4 Day from March 9 to March 30 2020

Seminar Pricing:

1 Day seminar is 8+ hours at $500 for a person. Get a 25% discount for advanced payment. Get our $500 VirtualU Personal Do It Yourself Kit for free with your registration.

https://virtualu.net/product/virtualu-1-day-digital-marketing-seminar-8-hour-training-course/

Full 4 week seminar or 4 days for 40+ hours is $4000. Get a 25% discount for advanced payment. Get our $1000 VirtualU Business Do It Yourself Kit for free with your registration. As a guarantee, the price of your seminar acts as a coupon that can be applied to products or services listed on our website.

https://virtualu.net/product/virtualu-net-digital-marketing-convention-las-vegas-2020-4-day-training-class-on-digital-marketing-orm-seo-smm-data-removals-privacy-legal/

Takeaways:

Become a certified Internet professional in all areas covered by this course. Certificate of completion.

1 Day 8 Hour Seminar Itinerary:

Get your free DIY Kit with e-book, video tutorials, 24 important documents to follow along

1) Morning: What it means to take full control of your “Virtual You”, your data and your market

2) How to start with “reputation protection” and then controlling the message with persistence
3) How to assess your target market online, your competition and finding low hanging fruit
4) Examples of incorrect advice by Google, Facebook, industry observers, reputation companies
5) VirtualU’s “20 Ways to Remove a Yelp” and how to remove information from any website
6) Evening: Overview of the newest information about the Internet from Privacy, to Meme's to Viral stories to Fake-news and Fake reviews. How to make every post you create become Viral.
7) Getting started with your DIY Kit with hands on training by claiming and then using your profiles
8) Q & A with actual problem solving, special requests, crafting of take down requests and todo list

4 Day 40+ Hour Training Course Outline:

1) Class on Digital Marketing:

In this course we'll outline real world offline cross marketing techniques on your Flyers, Cards, Radio, TV, Giveaways, Comment Cards etc. used to promote your online website.

SEO, Google, Yahoo & Bing
Local search/Geotargeting
Reviews websites
Directories / Citations
Lead brokers & Splash pages
Affiliate programs
Domain name purchases
Real world examples

2) Class on Online Reputation Management (ORM):

In this course we will get you started with real world customer examples to follow along. We will cover software, techniques and special circumstances that have arisen over the past 10 years in ORM.

Live Reputation Monitoring APP
Reputation Cleansing / Protection
Reputation & Brand Protection
Live Customer Case Studies
Live Results in Class

How to claim your Google Knowledge Panel, claiming your profiles and connect them together

Controlling your brand by controlling your usernames, your profiles and your social media

Controlling the Message with PR pieces that “stick” with SEO, back-linking and embedding

Advantages and disadvantages of people or company with the same name or a unique name
Google public submit page removal and how to work with what's already appearing in Google
Search and click actions. Click on good links not on negatives. Minimize negatives exposure.
How to control where your customers leave reviews and how to facilitate reviews from customers
How to use comment boxes and your profile descriptions to control the message to customers
Controlling the using the Google Auto-suggestions from a reputation management perspective
How to rank higher in Yelp search and get more reviews on Yelp with SEO & a Reviews APP

3) Class on Search Engine Optimization (SEO):

In this course we will get you started with real world customer examples to follow along. We will cover software, techniques and special circumstances that have arisen over the past 10 years in SEO.

Best practices with the top 10 Google criteria for Off Page SEO
Live case studies from real customers to analyze and emulate
Best practices with the top 10 Google criteria for On Page SEO
Live case studies from real customers to analyze and emulate

How to use research tools for competitive analysis and identify low laying fruit
Website analytics software, Campaign reporting, Tracking methods & ROI

How to use VPN's, Proxy's, IP's for privacy, security and the Google Auto SuggestGoogle Auto Suggest, Controlling, Feeding, Predicting & Directing the (GAS)
Websites, Pages & Forms as “fields”. Hand over text and picture text, Infographics

Back-link selection, High quality sites, sites already appearing in the search results
How to use Robots.txt, Sitemap, Types of Back-links, Planning to build backlinks
How to use message links in comments, descriptions, guest posts to your advantage
How to recover placements for expired domains or domain name purchases
How to get indexed by search engines faster without the Google public submit page
How long does it take to index? Fast as possible. Fresh as possible. Unique as possible.
Reverse or Negative SEO, Tracking back-links to your site, Negative suggestions
Techniques to track down potential attackers or competitors. Research. Troll trapping.

Picking the Best Keywords for SEO
Preparing Your Site, Including Avoiding Things that Hurt Your Site SEO
Understanding the Role of Content in SEO
Optimizing Your Pages – Meta Tags, Formatting Body Text & Images, etc.
Boosting SEO with Structured Data Markup
“Submitting" Your Site to 100+ top Search Engines and Directories
Local-Search SEO, Yelp, directory SEO
Understanding the Importance of Links in SEO and How they Work for You
Finding Places to Get Great Links to Your Site

4) Class on Social Media Management (SMM):

How SMM is used with ORM & SEO

Securing brand names, Domain names & Usernames

Comment box management, Flagging comments
Friend people with same name and in your area
Facebook classifieds. Social media sharing.
Key Success Stories

5) Class on Data Removals:

Removing your data from 100+ background, public records & social sites
How to set your Profile's Privacy Settings properly the first time
How to use a website's Privacy Policies & T&C to your advantage
12 Form letters for legal requests to correct or remove data
Google cache outdated content and Google removal options
Real customer data removal examples
Do not sell my info https://www.verizonmedia.com/policies/us/en/verizonmedia/privacy/california/index.html#right-to-opt-out

6) Class on Cyber-Law:

Your legal options. How to avoid a Lawsuit, reduce your Insurance Rates to protect your business and investors.

Removing your data from 100+ background, public records & social sites
How to sue to reveal reviewer
How and when to sue Yelp
Legal Reasons to remove data
Legal Requests to remove data
Google Legal & Take-down requests
Copyright, Trademarks, Patents, Porn
DCMA & Legal Issues

7) Class on Privacy Laws Compliance:

US-EU Right to be Forgotten
California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA
HIPPA Patient Privacy Guidelines
YouTube Childrens Channel over Childrens Privacy
Facebook Hearings for Military

Get a VirtualU Privacy Shield Profile Training Certification

8) Class on Privacy & Security:

Facebook Hearings for Military
Google Privacy Settings
All settings on SMM
Issues revealed at the Facebook Hearings
Cross tracking. Facebook pixel. Apps. Anonymity. Softwares.

9) VirtualU Affiliate Program:

Make commissions from your profiles, your websites and your data with track-able links

Become an VirtualU Guru Affiliate in your area, start your own seminars and get free leads

You'll become a much sought after reputation repair/social media expert having skills many would pay a small fortune to acquire. Plus, you'll also have knowledge and the power it brings.

10) DoctorU Computer Training:

Securing all your Internet activity to one computer
All Internet functions pre-installed for ease of use

Starting your DoctorU Protection Plan:
We show you how to immediately get more Reviews and more Referrals than your competitors while securing the future success of your practice

VirtualU.net Digital Marketing Conference Las Vegas 2020 Part 1 - SEO Seminar Courses are Hands-On for 1-4 Day Training Classes all-in-one Digital Marketing, ORM, SEO, SMM, Data Removals, Privacy & Cyber-Law

Digital Marketing Conference Las Vegas 2020 Part 1 - SEO Seminar Courses Hands-On for 1-4 Day Training Classes on Marketing, ORM, SEO, SMM, Removals, Privacy & Cyber-Law

About VirtualU Seminar:

https://virtualu.net/about-us/

Seminar Features

1 day class for 8 hours and 4 days over 1-4 weeks, 32+ hours of total training
Training follows our DIY Kit e-book and course handouts. Bring a computer.
Real-life scenarios, Real customer case studies, Real examples & Live results
Get real life situational analysis, problem solving, Q&A & getting you started

Seminar Benefits:

Get all-in-one course from Innovators in ORM since 1996, SEO 1999 & Shop.com 2001
See real customer case studies that increase Sales, Reputation, Brand, Reviews & Views
Getting started now for you or your business on each technique with hands-on training
Take home solutions, unlimited potential using your free time and increase market share

Course & Class Objectives:

Become a Digital Marketing, Reputation Management & SEO expert certified by industry

Acquire advanced knowledge from our experts with 25 years of the Industry experience

Learn tools, technologies, processes to become perfectly efficient and maximize effectiveness

Learn how to control your online brand to maximum friends, likes, followers, visits and sales

Learn the various Metrics, reporting and tracking mechanisms for each marketing campaign

Who is this course designed for:This course can be taken by Digital marketing, Social media, marketing, website and internet marketing professionals, high profile personalities, business owners, office managers & CEO's.

Course Prerequisites:

Class Dates:

32 Hours Advanced & Comprehensive Training Schedule

4 Weeks | 8 hours training each day in 2 sessions
9 AM – 6+ PM US Pacific time each day (all day)
1 Day on March 7th, 2020 – 4 Day from March 9 to March 30 2020

Seminar Pricing:

1 Day seminar is 8+ hours at $500 for a person. Get a 25% discount for advanced payment. Get our $500 VirtualU Personal Do It Yourself Kit for free with your registration.

https://virtualu.net/product/virtualu-1-day-digital-marketing-seminar-8-hour-training-course/

https://virtualu.net/product/virtualu-net-digital-marketing-convention-las-vegas-2020-4-day-training-class-on-digital-marketing-orm-seo-smm-data-removals-privacy-legal/

Takeaways:

Become a certified Internet professional in all areas covered by this course. Certificate of completion.

1 Day 8 Hour Seminar Itinerary:

Get your free DIY Kit with e-book, video tutorials, 24 important documents to follow along

1) Morning: What it means to take full control of your “Virtual You”, your data and your market

4 Day 40+ Hour Training Course Outline:

1) Class on Digital Marketing:

In this course we'll outline real world offline cross marketing techniques on your Flyers, Cards, Radio, TV, Giveaways, Comment Cards etc. used to promote your online website.

SEO, Google, Yahoo & Bing
Local search/Geotargeting
Reviews websites
Directories / Citations
Lead brokers & Splash pages
Affiliate programs
Domain name purchases
Real world examples

2) Class on Online Reputation Management (ORM):

In this course we will get you started with real world customer examples to follow along. We will cover software, techniques and special circumstances that have arisen over the past 10 years in ORM.

Live Reputation Monitoring APP
Reputation Cleansing / Protection
Reputation & Brand Protection
Live Customer Case Studies
Live Results in Class

How to claim your Google Knowledge Panel, claiming your profiles and connect them together

Controlling your brand by controlling your usernames, your profiles and your social media

Controlling the Message with PR pieces that “stick” with SEO, back-linking and embedding

3) Class on Search Engine Optimization (SEO):

In this course we will get you started with real world customer examples to follow along. We will cover software, techniques and special circumstances that have arisen over the past 10 years in SEO.

Best practices with the top 10 Google criteria for Off Page SEO
Live case studies from real customers to analyze and emulate
Best practices with the top 10 Google criteria for On Page SEO
Live case studies from real customers to analyze and emulate

How to use research tools for competitive analysis and identify low laying fruit
Website analytics software, Campaign reporting, Tracking methods & ROI

Picking the Best Keywords for SEO
Preparing Your Site, Including Avoiding Things that Hurt Your Site SEO
Understanding the Role of Content in SEO
Optimizing Your Pages – Meta Tags, Formatting Body Text & Images, etc.
Boosting SEO with Structured Data Markup
“Submitting" Your Site to 100+ top Search Engines and Directories
Local-Search SEO, Yelp, directory SEO
Understanding the Importance of Links in SEO and How they Work for You
Finding Places to Get Great Links to Your Site

4) Class on Social Media Management (SMM):

How SMM is used with ORM & SEO

Securing brand names, Domain names & Usernames

Comment box management, Flagging comments
Friend people with same name and in your area
Facebook classifieds. Social media sharing.
Key Success Stories

5) Class on Data Removals:

Removing your data from 100+ background, public records & social sites
How to set your Profile's Privacy Settings properly the first time
How to use a website's Privacy Policies & T&C to your advantage
12 Form letters for legal requests to correct or remove data
Google cache outdated content and Google removal options
Real customer data removal examples
Do not sell my info https://www.verizonmedia.com/policies/us/en/verizonmedia/privacy/california/index.html#right-to-opt-out

6) Class on Cyber-Law:

Your legal options. How to avoid a Lawsuit, reduce your Insurance Rates to protect your business and investors.

Removing your data from 100+ background, public records & social sites
How to sue to reveal reviewer
How and when to sue Yelp
Legal Reasons to remove data
Legal Requests to remove data
Google Legal & Take-down requests
Copyright, Trademarks, Patents, Porn
DCMA & Legal Issues

7) Class on Privacy Laws Compliance:

US-EU Right to be Forgotten
California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA
HIPPA Patient Privacy Guidelines
YouTube Childrens Channel over Childrens Privacy
Facebook Hearings for Military

Get a VirtualU Privacy Shield Profile Training Certification

8) Class on Privacy & Security:

Facebook Hearings for Military
Google Privacy Settings
All settings on SMM
Issues revealed at the Facebook Hearings
Cross tracking. Facebook pixel. Apps. Anonymity. Softwares.

9) VirtualU Affiliate Program:

Make commissions from your profiles, your websites and your data with track-able links

Become an VirtualU Guru Affiliate in your area, start your own seminars and get free leads

You'll become a much sought after reputation repair/social media expert having skills many would pay a small fortune to acquire. Plus, you'll also have knowledge and the power it brings.

10) DoctorU Computer Training:

Securing all your Internet activity to one computer
All Internet functions pre-installed for ease of use

Starting your DoctorU Protection Plan:
We show you how to immediately get more Reviews and more Referrals than your competitors while securing the future success of your practice

Thursday, January 2, 2020

California Online Privacy Law 2020 - Explained

California Privacy Law 2020: VirtualU Special Report on how to get help on CCPA and how-to remove my personal or business data! https://virtualu.net/california-privacy-law-2020/

California Privacy Law 2020: Act Bill Full Text – AB-375 goes into effect January 1st 2020, purchase the VirtualU Personal & Family Data Privacy Do-It-Yourself Kit. The kit includes help by a VirtualU Guru to remove your personal data from the top 100+ public records sites and how to get removed from any website. With our standardized take-down requests, you can properly ask each site to correct or remove any content from their website or from Google any of your personal data and control your “Virtual You”!

https://virtualu.net/product/virtualu-personal-and-family-data-privacy-do-it-yourself-kit/

“Consumers can also request companies bound by the CCPA delete all their personal data. And as The Wall Street Journal reported, websites with third-party tracking are supposed to add a “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” button that if clicked, prohibits the site from sending data about the customer to any third parties, including advertisers.”

Dec 31, 2019: No one is ready for California’s new consumer privacy law The California Consumer Privacy Act goes into effect January 1st, and it doesn’t look like anyone, even the state of California itself, is totally ready. Draft regulations for enforcing the law are still being finalized at the state level, and questions about specific aspects of the most sweeping privacy regulation since the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are still not clear. “If you thought the GDPR was bumpy, the CCPA is going to be a real roller coaster,” Reece Hirsch tells The Verge. Hirsch is co-head of Morgan Lewis’ privacy and cybersecurity practice and has been advising clients on how to adapt to the new law. “This is a complex set of new rules, which are still a work in progress.”

The crux of the CCPA is this: if your company buys or sells data on at least 50,000 California residents each year, you have to disclose to those residents what you’re doing with the data, and, they can request you not sell it. Consumers can also request companies bound by the CCPA delete all their personal data. And as The Wall Street Journal reported, websites with third-party tracking are supposed to add a “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” button that if clicked, prohibits the site from sending data about the customer to any third parties, including advertisers. “If you thought the GDPR was bumpy, the CCPA is going to be a real roller coaster.” Despite the handwringing ahead of its deadline last year, the official adoption of GDPR went as smoothly as could be expected. Facebook and Google are already facing billion-dollar lawsuits over alleged violations of the GDPR, but it will be years before those suits are closed. Until that time, small companies will have only a muddled sense of how they might be vulnerable to the rule, and compliance continues to be something of a puzzle. But the CCPA is likely to be an even greater compliance challenge. It’s the first sweeping legislation in the US to give consumers control over how their personal information is used online, and may signal how other states will seek to protect their residents’ privacy, Hirsch says. He’s advising clients not only update their privacy policies, but to also create processes for retaining copies of any personal information collected about consumers. Hirsch is also advising companies determine who will respond to and handle consumers’ requests for information and the deletion of that information.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said earlier this month that even though widespread enforcement of the CCPA isn’t likely until July, companies should not view the first six months of the year as a grace period. “We’re going to try to help folks understand our interpretation of the law,” Becerra said last week, as quoted by the San Francisco Chronicle. “And once we’ve done those things, our job is to make sure there’s compliance, so we’ll enforce.” James Steyer, CEO of children’s privacy advocacy organization Common Sense, says he thinks most companies are making good-faith efforts to get in compliance with the CCPA. Microsoft announced last month that it plans to implement the provisions of the CCPA not just in California, but for all its customers, too. Facebook looks to be taking a different approach toward CCPA, emphasizing that “we do not sell people’s data,” according to a December blog post. Facebook says already has tools to allow users to access and delete their information, wherever they live. The service has a CCPA page where California residents can request information about any of its products — WhatsApp, Instagram, Portal, Messenger Kids, and Facebook itself. As a result, Facebook sees itself as largely already complying with CCPA. Steyer takes issue with Facebook’s stance, since, as he says, the company’s business model is based on collecting and monetizing its users’ data. California should be keeping tabs on how companies collect and use their customers’ data, not just whether they sell that data, he adds. “As has unfortunately become the custom, Facebook is the single biggest outlier,” Steyer says. “Becerra is going to have to focus on holding companies like Facebook to account.” Facebook declined to comment further. Hirsch says it’s not entirely clear what California is using as its definition of a “sale” of consumer information.

Another issue: How is a company going to ensure it is deleting the right customer’s data without collecting more information to verify them? “The broad definition of ‘sale’ is a pain point for a lot of companies because it potentially includes sharing information for online advertising,” Hirsch says. Service provider agreements are another area where companies will have to take a close look at their practices; an agreement with a subcontractor or vendor should carefully spell out how any personal information is used or shared, Hirsch added. Most large tech companies, Steyer says, view the CCPA as being in their long-term interests because it will create more trust among consumers. But with its slew of privacy gaffes over the past few years, it’s puzzling why Facebook wouldn’t seize an opportunity to improve its privacy track record. “This is a landmark moment, it’s the first major comprehensive privacy legislation passed in the U.S. since Zuckerberg was in kindergarten,” Steyer says. “But Facebook is trying to find ways to get around the law.”

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