The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced a new "Click to Cancel" rule, mandating that businesses offer consumers a simple and straightforward way to cancel subscriptions at least as easily as signing up. The rule, primarily targeting "negative option" programs—where subscriptions automatically renew unless actively canceled by the consumer—will mostly come into effect in March 2025, 180 days after ...
The Australian parliament has enacted “'world-leading” legislation introduced by the government which bans children under the age of 16 from using social media platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, and others. According to lawmakers in Australia, the law will mitigate the harm social media poses to children.
The law will introduce the ban in late 2025. Social media platforms will be ...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has released a draft of new regulations aimed at restricting government agencies and private entities from transferring sensitive personal data to countries deemed adversaries to the U.S., namely China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba. These rules are designed to implement a presidential executive order from February 2024.
The draft regulations target categories ...
The European Union has enacted the Cyber Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/2847), establishing comprehensive cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements, including those utilizing artificial intelligence (AI).
The Cyber Resilience Act applies to all products with digital components, whether hardware or software and requires adherence to uniform cybersecurity standards. For example, manufacturers are obligated to design and develop products that ...
A recent U.S. federal district court decision in California has underscored the duty of care software developers owe to individuals whose data is exposed in cyberattacks, even if they are not direct software users. The case involved Accellion, whose legacy file transfer software (FTA) was breached twice between late 2020 and early 2021. The breach led to the disclosure of ...
The U.S. Library of Congress adopted the U.S. Copyright Office’s recommended rule regarding the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) application on AI (artificial intelligence) security researchers.
According to the decision, researchers seeking to examine whether AI generates prohibited content—such as discriminatory or explicit material—will not be exempt from the DMCA’s provisions that forbid bypassing digital protection mechanisms that limit access ...
The Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved the Bill on Police Access to Computer Material. The bill seeks to authorize courts to issue warrants allowing the police to covertly access computer material without the computer owner's knowledge or presence of witnesses. The bill restricts the warrants only to the investigation and prevention of offenses punishable by more than 10 years ...
Two new instructive documents published by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) clarify the responsibilities of controllers in verifying processers’ ability to provide adequate data protection, and when “legitimate interests” can be relied on as the legal basis for processing.
According to the EDPB's opinion on the controller's oversight responsibilities, controllers must actively verify sufficient compliance by processors and sub-processors, ...
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