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Biden signs bill reauthorizing FISA Section 702
US House passes bill to force sale of TikTok
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...
Netherlands' DPA warns against government Facebook use
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 ...
Catching up on IAPP GPS 2024 keynote speeches
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...
Google to pay $62M in location privacy settlement
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...
Israel's PPA issues report on digital health care industry
Israel's Privacy Protection Agency issued analysis of health care providers' data privacy compliance. The PPA report is based on a survey to health entities on organizational and corporate governance, database management and information security. Following discovery and notice of compliance shortcom...
South Korea's PIPC pilots privacy-by-design certification
South Korea's Personal Information Protection Committee and the Korea Internet and Security Agency launched a pilot program for a joint privacy-by-design certification. The program is intended to improve personal information collection devices present in everyday life. The first approved certificati...
Take the 2024 IAPP Governance Survey
The IAPP is collecting responses to the 2024 IAPP Governance Survey. The annual survey aims to collect data on organizations' privacy governance and compliance behaviors for a clearer picture of the compliance environment and a better understanding of how organizations address burdens.Full story...
Lawsuit claims Grindr shared UK sensitive user data with third parties
A U.K. lawsuit claims dating app Grindr shared users' sensitive information, including HIV status, with third parties without consent, Reuters reports. Grindr said in a statement it is "committed to protecting our users data and complying with all applicable data privacy regulations, including in th...
Op-ed: Global Privacy Control restricts consumers' need for tailored ads
In an op-ed for AdExchanger, Neolaw co-founder and Privacy Lawyer Andy Hepburn, CIPP/US, said the Global Privacy Control that allows consumers to opt out of targeted advertisements is too restrictive. Hepburn said a better approach for GPC settings "would enable advertisers to deliver relevant ads t...
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