According to an opinion by the Israeli Consumer Protection Authority, online platforms whose target audience includes minors and who allow other businesses to advertise on their platform, are responsible to ensure that the content of those ads is not prohibited for minors, regardless of the manner or means of advertisement. The opinion was filed as part of a class action ...
Israeli banking corporations are now allowed to use cloud computing in their core systems and core activities, according to an amendment to the Circular on Proper Conduct of Banking Business concerning cloud computing. Until recently, this ‘core systems’ use was expressly prohibited by the circular. This change in approach, as the Supervisor of Banks clarified, stems from the recognition that ...
Israeli consumers will be able to register their phone numbers in the national “do not call me” registry starting November 1, 2022. Starting January 1, 2023, all Israeli companies must not directly contact, for marketing purposes, consumers whose numbers are registered in the database.
According to the new regulations, companies seeking to directly contact consumers with a marketing offer must ...
Tax exemptions for crypto transactions under $200, classification of virtual assets as securities and commodities, and an obligation to perform an analysis of energy consumption in digital asset markets – are some of the provisions in the U.S. federal Responsible Financial Innovation Bill, which aims to provide economic certainty and clarity in the cryptocurrency and blockchain sectors.
Among other matters, ...
Following its decision earlier this year to ban the use of Google Analytics for the processing of personal data from France in the absence of additional safeguards, the French data protection authority (CNIL) published a set of questions and answers on the use of Google Analytics by French data controllers.
CNIL reiterated that the existence of the Standard Contractual Clauses ...
Google agreed to pay $90 million to settle a legal dispute with app developers who alleged that Google has abused its power to impose legal and technical barriers on the app ecosystem, charged app developers fees of up to 30% of in-app purchases, and forced them to only use Google’s billing system. The settlement would resolve a class action suit ...
The Knesset, the Israeli legislature, voted for the final approval of an amendment to the Communications Law (Telecom and Broadcasts), 5742-1982, repealing the need for most telecommunications service providers to obtain a specific telecom license through a complicated and bureaucratic procedure previously required. The amendment becomes effective on October 2, 2022.
Before the amendment, anyone desiring to provide telecommunications services ...
A group of bipartisan legislators presented a new congressional privacy bill in early June. The bill, if enacted, would pre-empt most state data privacy laws. The bill also would allow individuals to opt out of targeted advertisement and to assert legal claims against companies who unlawfully sell their data, among other things. This is the first major step toward a ...
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