The European Data Protection Board issued the final version of its guidelines that clarify the framework in Article 48 of the GDPR for controllers and processors in the EU when they receive requests from authorities in non-EU member states (“third countries”) to transfer or disclose personal data.
The core objective of Article 48 of the GDPR is to assert EU ...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has published the amended Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule, aiming to strengthen the protection of children's personal information and clarify the obligations of online operators under the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
The updates are based on results from the FTC’s enforcement experience and review of public comments received since the previous rule ...
Technology companies are increasingly being forced to pay fines and settlements due to violations of privacy and data protection laws. TikTok was recently issued a €530 million fine by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), and Google settled a lawsuit in Texas, agreeing to pay a penalty of more than $1.3 billion.
Following an investigation into the Chinese social media ...
Two recent decisions from the U.S. Federal District Court for the Northern District of California analyzed the complex issue of whether using copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence (AI) models constitutes fair use under copyright law.
In Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, Judge Alsup ruled on Anthropic’s use of millions of copyrighted books to train its Claude Large Language Model (LLM). ...
The Israeli Ministry of the Interior (MoI), which oversees the country’s border control, has released a draft bill proposing an amendment to the biometric database law.
The proposed amendment would allow border control agents to request biometric identification documents upon entry to Israel and attempt biometric verification using the national biometric database. This measure would only be used when an ...
The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) recently issued a Finding of Wrongdoing against the Israeli web storage company CyberServe, which fell victim to a cyberattack in 2021. The attack led to the exposure of extremely sensitive data, causing severe harm the data subjects.
CyberServe was accused of deficient security measures that facilitated the attack. Alongside the PPA's investigation into the ...
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