The European Commission has fined Google with an unprecedented penalty of 4.3 billion Euros (about 5 billion dollars) for breaching EU antitrust rules. The European Commission determined that since 2011, Google has been imposing unlawful restrictions on Android device manufacturers and mobile network operators to establish the dominant position of its search engine. In particular, the EU Commission alleges that, ...
California lawmakers enacted a new privacy-centric law known as the “California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018” (CCPA). The CCPA will take effect on January 1, 2020.
This comprehensive legislation shares certain similarities with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that became enforceable this May. Amongst other similarities, the CCPA adopts a number of GDPR principles, such as ...
The EU and Japan have agreed to recognize each other's data protection systems as 'equivalent', allowing the transfer of personal information between the EU countries and Japan. The agreement was announced during an economic summit in Tokyo. The agreement is due to enter into effect at the end of the year, after the European Data Protection Board (the pan-EU privacy ...
Today, the Israeli Prime Minister's office published a memorandum of the proposed Cyber Defense and National Cyber Directorate Law, 2018. The memorandum’s proposed law is aimed at regulating the purpose, functions and powers of the Cyber Directorate in dealing with cyber threats against the State of Israel.
It includes far-reaching and unprecedented measures that affect every organization in the Israeli economy. It ...
Technology companies are increasingly relying on trade secrets to maintain their edge in an ever-increasing competitive marketplace, while also harnessing consumer personal data. Companies that conduct a substantial portion of their business online must be especially vigilant about maintaining tight control over confidential intellectual property and their customers’ personal information. Recent developments in the United States have led to an increased focus on trade ...
Following incidents of child abuse in kindergartens and calls to install security cameras in order to ensure the safety of infants and toddlers, the Israeli Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) has published an opinion on surveillance cameras used in kindergartens.
According to PPA’s opinion, before deciding to install surveillance cameras, a kindergarten must obtain legal counsel on whether the installation is ...
The European Parliament passed a nonbinding resolution calling on the European Commission to suspend the EU-US Privacy Shield unless the United States becomes fully compliant with EU data protection laws by September 1, 2018.
The Privacy Shield is an arrangement between the authorities in the US and the EU, enabling US companies who certify to the Privacy Shield framework to ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has overturned a jury verdict and district court decisions finding that Google’s copying and use of 37 of Oracle’s Java API packages are permissible as ‘fair use’ under copyright law.
The dispute has been in litigation for about eight years and has yet to conclude. In 2005, Google acquired Android, ...
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