Earlier this month, the governor of Texas signed the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act ("TDPSA") into law. Meanwhile, the Oregon legislature passed the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (“OCPA”), sending it to the Governor of Oregon for signature. These two laws mark Texas and Oregon as the tenth and eleventh states in the U.S. to enact data protection legislation, following ...
The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA), an association representing music publishers in the United States, has filed a $250 million lawsuit against the social network Twitter. The NMPA alleges that Twitter infringed hundreds of thousands of copyrighted musical works they own: "Twitter sustains its business by utilizing countless infringing copies of musical compositions, thereby violating the exclusive rights of publishers ...
The United States and the United Kingdom have announced a framework for economic relations between the countries in the 21st century, coined the “Atlantic Declaration: A Framework for a Twenty-First Century U.S.-UK Economic Partnership". The framework includes several elements, covering also privacy and artificial intelligence:
The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) has published a draft position paper that calls on businesses in Israel to refrain from requesting that consumers provide them with a full copy of their national ID card to receive services.
The PPA’s position paper explains that the PPA has been seeing a growing trend of businesses asking for the consumers’ ID number ...
Amazon has settled with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on two separate charges, and will pay over 30 million dollars in aggregate for alleged privacy violations related to its Ring and Alexa devices.
Amazon will pay nearly six million dollars to settle Amazon’s privacy violations and practices of misleading consumers regarding its smart doorbell and home security camera service “Ring”. ...
Members of the European Parliament approved the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), sending it to the EU countries in the European Council to reach an agreement on the final form of the law later this year.
The initial draft of the AI Act aimed to establish a legal framework for the use of artificial intelligence tools while ensuring the protection ...
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