Lawmakers introduce bill to restrict NSA surveillance
A bipartisan coalition of US lawmakers have introduced a new bill that would protect Americans’ rights against unnecessary government surveillance. […]
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Like CCPA, But Make it Virginia: States Scramble to Introduce Data Privacy Legislation of Their Own
With companies still scrambling to comply with the newly effective California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), other states continue to introduce […]
Croatian Presidency tempers expectations on ePrivacy progress
The Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union is the just the latest EU presidency to try to […]
Reflecting on APAC Data Protection and Cyber-security Highlights for 2019 (and what lies ahead!)
2019 saw continued growth and change in data protection and cyber-security across the Asia-Pacific. Following the implementation of the GDPR […]
‘Prepare for ICO to utilise its wider powers’: UK regulator issues warning to adtech
The UK’s data regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), has issued a warning to any adtech companies which have failed […]
EU to police digital assistants
European Union privacy watchdogs are gearing up to police digital assistants after revelations that Amazon.com Inc. workers listened in on […]
EU court adviser: data privacy laws should apply in national security cases
The European Court of Justice should uphold its 2016 decision that personal data cannot be seized and held indiscriminately by […]
Will online privacy make a comeback in 2020?
Last year was a landmark for online privacy in many ways, with something of a consensus emerging that consumers deserve […]
Lawmakers push bipartisan update to children’s online privacy law
House lawmakers are introducing a bipartisan bill Thursday to update a long-standing children’s online privacy law so that parents could […]
Dutch Court Decides on Scope of GDPR Right of Access
In late December 2019, the Court of The Hague (Netherlands) published a preliminary reference procedure (see here , in Dutch). The […]
State Legislatures Are Off to the Privacy Races
New Hampshire legislators introduced new data privacy legislation, New Hampshire House Bill 1680. The legislation is similar to the California […]
Ten Questions—And Answers—About the California Consumer Privacy Act
You may have heard from a lot of businesses telling you that they’ve updated their privacy policies because of a […]