The California Consumer Privacy Act goes into effect January 1st, and it doesn’t look like anyone, even the state of California itself, is totally ready. Draft regulations for enforcing the law are still being finalized at the state level, and questions about specific aspects of the most sweeping ...
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The UK is at the “end of the queue” for a deal to allow data to continue to flow freely with the EU after Brexit, according to a senior European official. Talks over the future trade relationship between the UK and the EU will begin early next year, ...
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The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on Friday announced a £275,000 (U.S. $356,000) fine levied against London-based pharmacy Doorstep Dispensaree for violations of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. The fine is the first the ICO has handed out under the GDPR, despite making headlines earlier this year ...
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On November 5, 2019, the President of the CNIL gave notice to Boutique.Aéro to bring its video surveillance system into compliance. In March 2019, the CNIL carried out an on-site inspection in the company's store located in Haute-Garonne. The main result of the audit was that the company ...
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A small B.C. [British Colombia, Canada] company involved in a scandal that saw the personal information of millions of voters illicitly collected for the purpose of shaping political events around the world will not face financial penalties in Canada for its misuse of data. A joint investigation by ...
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The evolving privacy regulation environment is likely to have reverberations for the cyber insurance space, especially as one of the strictest privacy laws in the United States is just around the corner. One cyber expert [Michael Palotay, Tokio Marine HCC] says the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will ...
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Those waiting for Europe’s tough privacy laws to seriously bite Big Tech will have to keep waiting a while longer. Ireland’s privacy watchdog was due to say next month whether WhatsApp had broken the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by not giving people enough clear information about how it uses ...
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The Indian government is all set to table Personal Data Protection Bill - which proposes to put restriction on use of personal data without explicit consent of citizen - in the current session of Parliament. As per the proposal, hefty penalties on entities found violating privacy of users ...
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