The European Commission has officially decided to renew its recognition of Israel’s adequacy status, confirming that Israel’s data protection and privacy regime is essentially equivalent to the European Union’s standards for personal data protection. This adequacy decision is a prerequisite for the seamless transfer of personal data from the EU to Israel.
Originally planned for 2020, the EU Commission’s decision ...
The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing changes to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule). If adopted, these changes would amount to a significant overhaul in the regulation of how children’s personal information is used and disclosed online.
The original COPPA Rule, effective in 2000, requires that certain online services and websites obtaining personal information from ...
A decision by the Superior Court in California indicates that those who receive software subject to the GPL open-source license may be able to exercise their rights under the license as third-party beneficiaries of the contract, separately from the rights of the copyright owners. The decision was delivered in a lawsuit filed by the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a non-profit ...
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that Artificial Intelligence (AI) cannot be registered as a patent inventor, establishing that every inventor must be a “real” person. This decision concludes prolonged legal proceedings that started in 2019 when the UK Intellectual Property Office informed Dr. Stephen Thaler that under the patent law of the UK, only a natural person or company ...
The Supreme Court of Israel has enjoined a public official from blocking followers from their social media accounts, even if the account is not operated by a public authority. This decision emerged from a resident of a town in Israel, who was blocked by the mayor’s Twitter account after the resident posted a tweet critical of the mayor. As a ...
The Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) has enacted Amendment No. 40 to the Police Ordinance, affirming the Police’s use of a vehicle tracking system named “Ein Hanetz”. This amendment, commonly referred to as the “Tracking Law,” is specifically designed to regulate the use of a camera-based system that recognizes vehicle identification plates and enables the tracking of individual’s movements on roads. ...
The Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts, published the Judiciary’s views on AI and its impacts, in the 2023 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary. Chief Justice Roberts emphasized AI’s significant role in enhancing access to legal services for those unable to afford traditional representation. The Chief Justice pointed out AI’s potential assistance in legal procedures like bankruptcy ...
Google has agreed to pay $700 million and implement changes to its Play Store, to settle the antitrust lawsuit that nearly all 50 states in the U.S. asserted against it. This lawsuit alleged that the Play Store operates as an illegal monopoly. The settlement was approved by a federal district court in San Francisco. The separate lawsuit asserted by Epic ...
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