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April 23, 2021

German court: Damages from GDPR breach must be proven

The Baden-Wuerttemberg Labour Court of Appeals has clarified the requirements for an entitlement to immaterial damages in cases of a violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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April 23, 2021

New Bill Would Ban Clearview and Warrantless Location Data Purchases

The sweeping bill has support from both Democrats and Republicans, and will address multiple forms of surveillance.

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April 23, 2021

Florida House of Representatives Passes Florida Privacy Protection Act

The bill gives Floridians the right to know what information companies have collected about them, the right to delete and correct that information, the right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of their personal information and…

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April 22, 2021

European Commission Publishes Proposal for Artificial Intelligence Act

The European Commission published its Proposal for a Regulation on a European approach for Artificial Intelligence. The Proposal follows a public consultation on the Commission’s white paper on AI published in February 2020.

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April 19, 2021

Health experts call for the GDPR revision for cross-border health data sharing

Health experts are urging EU policymakers and legislators to review the EU’s legal data protection framework, the GDPR, which is hampering the sharing of pseudonymised health data outside the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA).

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April 16, 2021

Wyden proposes banning sale of personal data to ‘unfriendly’ governments

The proposal would treat Americans’ personal data with the same caution as powerful weaponry, using export-control laws to block its sale to countries marked as potential security threats.

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April 16, 2021

EDPB Gives the Green Light to the Commission’s Draft UK Adequacy Decisions

the EDPB has confirmed in a press release that it has identified “many aspects [of the UK data protection framework] to be essentially equivalent ” to the EU data protection framework.

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April 14, 2021

House fails to pass WPA but bill ‘remains alive’

The Washington state House of Representatives failed to advance the Washington Privacy Act Sunday, its last day to pass the bill this session, but its fate is not yet set in stone.

April 13, 2021

Surveillance exposes limits of transatlantic AI collaboration

European lawmakers say company’s surveillance practices ‘poses an issue’ for joint approach to artificial intelligence.

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April 10, 2021

Your ‘smart home’ is watching – and possibly sharing your data with the police

Smart-home devices like thermostats and fridges may be too smart for comfort – especially in a country with few laws preventing the sale of digital data to third parties.

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April 10, 2021

From California to Brazil: GDPR has created recipe for the world

As Europe’s sweeping GDPR laws approach their third anniversary, other jurisdictions around the world are taking cues from it to develop their own frameworks.