The French data privacy regulator (CNIL) served formal warnings on two advertising companies - FIDZUP and TEEMO - in relation to their collection and processing of personal data from mobile phones. The companies offer software development kit (SDK) tools for using the information collected in targeted marketing campaigns. The CNIL found that the consent upon which the companies relied on ...
The European Commission has fined Google with an unprecedented penalty of 4.3 billion Euros (about 5 billion dollars) for breaching EU antitrust rules. The European Commission determined that since 2011, Google has been imposing unlawful restrictions on Android device manufacturers and mobile network operators to establish the dominant position of its search engine. In particular, the EU Commission alleges that, ...
Following incidents of child abuse in kindergartens and calls to install security cameras in order to ensure the safety of infants and toddlers, the Israeli Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) has published an opinion on surveillance cameras used in kindergartens.
According to PPA’s opinion, before deciding to install surveillance cameras, a kindergarten must obtain legal counsel on whether the installation is ...
A new and first-of-a-kind law was enacted in the State of Ohio, providing a safe harbor to organizations that demonstrate compliance with cybersecurity standards. The law establishes a legal safe harbor operating as a defense to causes of action in tort that allege or relate to the failure to implement reasonable information security controls, resulting in a data breach. The ...
Imagine that at any given moment, the State can enter your business, demand any document and information you have, instruct you on how to operate your IT system, seize computers, communication systems and drives containing data, or even help itself to your workstations and operate them by itself. Imagine that your most guarded information – your bookkeeping system, Excel files ...
The EU and Japan have agreed to recognize each other's data protection systems as 'equivalent', allowing the transfer of personal information between the EU countries and Japan. The agreement was announced during an economic summit in Tokyo. The agreement is due to enter into effect at the end of the year, after the European Data Protection Board (the pan-EU privacy ...
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