The Israeli Minister of Justice, Yariv Levin, will establish a governmental investigation commission to examine the Israeli police’s use of NSO’s Pegasus spyware. The committee will be headed by retired Judge Moshe Drori, who is recognized as a supporter of the Israeli government’s plans to overhaul the judiciary. Judge Drori will be joined by the former chief of public defenders, ...
The European Commission has announced that the United States is an adequate country for the transfer of personal data under the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). The adequacy recognition means that the United States provides a level of protection of personal data essentially equivalent to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The announcement concludes a trans-Atlantic process triggered ...
The Israeli Minister of Justice, Yariv Levin, will establish a governmental investigation commission to examine the Israeli police’s use of NSO’s Pegasus spyware. The committee will be headed by retired Judge Moshe Drori, who is recognized as a supporter of the Israeli government’s plans to overhaul the judiciary. Judge Drori will be joined by the former chief of public defenders, ...
The French National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) approved a legislative amendment authorizing the French police to access smart devices to locate the whereabouts of suspects in crimes punishable by at least five years imprisonment. The police will also be authorized to remotely record and take pictures of suspects in terrorist offenses, juvenile delinquency, and organized crime. The amendment would allow tracking ...
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 U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent OpenAI a letter of inquiry, demanding that the company explain how it deals with risks arising from artificial intelligence. The FTC is requiring that OpenAI describe all complaints it has received about its products (such as ChatGPT) which involve receiving ‘false, misleading, derogatory, or harmful’ information about people. The commission is also demanding ...
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has published interim measures for the regulation of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) services. These measures will apply to organizations and individuals providing GAI services in China, including content generation (text, images, audio, and video). Developers who do not offer services based on GAI will be exempt from these rules.
The measures require the prevention ...
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 ...
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