North Carolina became the first state in the U.S. to enact a law that prohibits state and local public agencies from engaging with ransomware hackers demanding ransom, and from paying them any ransom. Under the new statute, upon an agency’s discovery of ransomware in its systems, it must report the incident to the North Carolina Department of Information Technology (DoIT) ...
The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) published a summary report of its supervisory activities in 2018-2020. The report reviews the results of the supervisory activities performed in fourteen sectors (such as medical institutions, local authorities, and data storage and processing companies), and indicates an overall significant improvement in compliance with privacy laws and regulations.
Supervised organizations who were found in ...
The European Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional political agreement on the Digital Services Act (DSA), which aims to combat the online publication of unlawful content. The DSA sets out strict and unprecedented rules on policing online content, effectively ending the era of self-regulation of content by online platforms.
The DSA will apply to all companies providing online ...
Countries around the world are shifting gears in the race to lead the world of cryptocurrency and NFT regulation.
In the UK, the British government announced its plans to launch a government NFT, as part of its broader plan to become a “world leader” in cryptocurrency. This plan includes, among other things, an expansion of existing regulation on electronic payments ...
A newly issued mechanism for cross-border transfers of personal data governed by the UK GDPR has entered into force. The new mechanism, created by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), offers two alternative solutions. The first is an “International Data Transfer Agreement” (IDTA), which constitutes a standalone agreement that follows the blueprint of the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs). The ...
On remand from the Supreme Court of the United States, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reaffirmed the District Court’s preliminary injunction banning LinkedIn from blocking hiQ, a Californian start-up, from accessing LinkedIn’s website through automated means.
The ongoing feud between LinkedIn and hiQ began a few years ago when LinkedIn sent hiQ a cease and deceased ...
The Dutch Privacy Protection Authority imposed an unprecedented fine of 4,750,000 Euros for significant violations of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). The regulator’s investigation found that the Dutch Tax Authority had unlawfully collected sensitive personal data of over 250,000 Dutch citizens and recorded it in its fraud signaling system for over six years. Some of the individuals whose data ...
The United States Government and the European Union Commission announced that they had reached an agreement “in principle” on a new framework for cross-border data transfers to enable predictable and stable data flows between the EU and the US. The new framework is intended to replace the Privacy Shield, which was invalidated in July 2020 when the Court of Justice ...
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