E-commerce websites and apps in China, and those using third party platforms to sell their products and services in China, must update their operations, services and systems in advance of wide-ranging new rules.
On March 12, 2021, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its Guidelines 01/2021 on Virtual Voice Assistants (VVA) for consultation.
Officers’ use of Boston Robotics’ Digidog intensifies concerns about militarization of the police.
Civil Liberties Committee adopted on March 16 the draft resolution evaluating the GDPR and called for effective enforcement and adequate resources for supervisory authorities.
The EU wants to have all private chats, messages, and emails automatically searched for suspicious content, generally and indiscriminately.
The proposed federal bill would create protections for the processing of sensitive personal information.
The great majority of EU justice ministers on March 15 once again called a new Europe-wide collection of traffic and location data of the entire population (data retention).
The EUinstitutions will seek to agree the final text of the ePrivacy Regulation. This article sets out the significant areas of divergence across the three proposals.
However, EU lawmakers in Brussels doubt that the UK’s future data protection landscape will be fully aligned with EU data protection standards
Colorado has introduced the “Colorado Privacy Act”, noting that “EU GDPR is emerging as a model for countries across the globe in data privacy”.
A recent hack into a massive collection of security camera data from Verkada Inc. shows the cyber and privacy-related vulnerabilities of digital devices that could give way to lawsuits and government enforcement actions.
Regulations state that methods for submitting requests to opt-out may not be designed with the purpose of, or have the substantial effect of, “subverting or impairing” a consumer’s choice to opt-out.