UN privacy expert weighs in on landmark US Supreme Court case on jurisdiction over cloud data
he UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy has submitted independent expert advice to the US Supreme Court in […]
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US-based email marketers unprepared and most unfamiliar with GDPR
Eighty-seven percent of respondents to a new survey expressed unfamiliarity with the General Data Protection Regulation. Considering the vast implications […]
European Commission weighs in on Microsoft Ireland case
The European Commission has filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the European Union in the ongoing legal dispute […]
Congress Can Crack Down On Tech Companies, But It Can’t Do Much To Their Algorithms
Within an hour of the House Intelligence Committee’s Wednesday hearing with Facebook, Google, and Twitter, Rep. Adam Schiff, the committee’s […]
New York City Takes on Algorithmic Discrimination
Invisible algorithms increasingly shape the world we live in, and not always for the better. Unfortunately, few mechanisms are in […]
Trump signs into law U.S. government ban on Kaspersky Lab software
President Donald Trump signed into law on Tuesday legislation that bans the use of Kaspersky Lab within the U.S. government, […]
Surveillance Cameras Made by China Are Hanging All Over the U.S.
Hikvision, a company 42%-owned by the Chinese government, sold devices that monitor U.S. Army base and Memphis streets. That has […]
Article 29 Working Party Sets Deadline to Address Privacy Shield Concerns
Hot on the heels of the European Commission’s official review of the functioning of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework, the […]
Caught between Sanctions and Data Protection— What is a Company to Do?
Many companies have found themselves in an awkward position with respect to compliance with trade sanctions and data protection legislation. […]
5 Russian-Made Surveillance Technologies Used in the West
Privacy activists are battling to stop Western surveillance technology from filtering out to oppressive regimes. But Russia is also hard […]
EU to intervene in Microsoft’s U.S. Supreme Court data protection case
The European Union is to make a submission to the U.S. Supreme Court in its hearing of the U.S. Department […]
Working Party Releases Opinion on Joint Review of EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
As we previously reported, this October, the EU Commission released its report and accompanying working document on the first annual […]