Earlier this month, the governor of California signed into law a legislative bill passed with bipartisan support that requires online services to design their privacy practices in a way that by default protects the privacy of children under the age of 18. The new law, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code, will go into effect in July 2024. This law introduces ...
The budgets of the data protection authorities in most of the member states of the European Union have increased in the last few years, some of them even surging by tens of percent, according to a new report published by the European Data Protection Board. The budgets in Germany, Italy, and Austria jumped by more than 40 percent between 2020 ...
Albania has severed its diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran and ordered the Iranian embassy staff to leave the country, accusing the theocracy of perpetrating a cyber-attack against Albania.
Albania’s prime minister said that the cyber-attack attempted to cripple public services, destroy and steal government data and bring about turmoil. The prime minister indicated "irrefutable evidence" that Iran ...
The U.S. federal district court for the Northern District of California has granted LinkedIn's motion to vacate the injunction that prohibited it from blocking hiQ Labs, a California startup, that has been running automated tools to collect publicly posted information of LinkedIn members.
The court was persuaded by LinkedIn's assertion of a significant change in circumstances because hiQ no longer ...
Even when facing important matters such as the prevention of sexual abuse of children, the adverse impact on individuals’ rights to private life and data protection must be limited and proportionate. This was one of the key principles expressed in the joint opinion by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), regarding a new proposed ...
The European Commission has laid a proposal for a new Cyber Resilience Act to cyber-protect individuals and businesses that buy or use products or software with a digital component. This law is the first law in the European Union that addresses this subject matter, introducing mandatory cyber security requirements for products with digital elements.
The new law, formulated as an ...
The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority has rigidified its published policy on data breach notifications, emphasizing that it now requires that “immediate” notification be given upon the discovery, or reasonably suspected occurrence, of a serious information security incident.
According to the Protection of Privacy Regulations (Information Security) from 2017, a controller or processor with a database subject to a high or ...
American cosmetic retailer Sephora agreed to pay a $2.1 million fine to settle claims that it had violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). This is the first CCPA enforcement action made public. California’s Attorney General found that Sephora failed to disclose to consumers that it was selling their personal information, within the meaning of ‘sale’ under the CCPA. The ...
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