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GDPR Guidelines on Judicial Orders Compelling Cross-Border Data Transfers

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 ...

Israel Proposed New Regulations for Using Biometric Data at Border Control

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 ...

Israeli Privacy Authority Accuses CyberServe of Violations Amid a Data Breach

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 ...

Two U.S. Federal Court Decisions Find Specific Uses of Books to Train AI Are Fair

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). ...

ברזיל: רשתות חברתיות יישאו באחריות לקיומו של תוכן בלתי חוקי

בית המשפט העליון של ברזיל קבע כי רשתות חברתיות יישאו באחריות משפטית להסרת תכנים בלתי חוקיים שמתפרסמים על ידי המשתמשים. לטענת בית המשפט, החקיקה הקיימת אינה מספקת מענה הולם להתמודדות עם הנזק הנגרם כאשר התכנים נותרים ברחבי האינטרנט. על כן, יש לדרוש מהרשתות החברתיות לפעול באופן יזום להסרתם טרם התרחשות הנזק בפועל. 

עד כה, החקיקה הקיימת בברזיל התירה הטלת אחריות על הרשתות ...

U.S. FTC Updates COPPA Rule

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 ...

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