U.S. President Joe Biden signed legislation reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act 20 April, The Associated Press reports. The Senate passed a bill 60-34, renewing Section 702 authority just after the deadline for the program to expire. Meanwhile, Columbia University ...

The U.S. House voted in favor of fast-tracking a bill to compel TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, to divest itself of the app, The New York Times reports. If passed and signed into law, the bill would give ByteDance up to one year to find a U.S.-government approved buyer for TikTok or face a natio...

The Netherlands' data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, warned government offices not to use Facebook if they are uncertain how visitors' data will be affected. The AP said after a 2021 investigation it could not determine whether visitor information is collected legally by the ...

The IAPP released several full-length keynote presentations from the IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2024. Columbia University Law Professor Anu Bradford discussed the differences between digital regulatory models in China, the EU and the U.S. and their implications for liberal democracy. Other presentat...

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California agreed to the settlement terms of Google's location privacy lawsuit that would require Google to pay USD62 million, MediaPost reports. The class-action lawsuit accused Google of storing "location data harvested from some services, inclu...