Tassilo Hummel reports: France’s Conseil d’Etat, the country’s supreme administrative court, on Friday said it upheld a decision by a watchdog imposing a 100 million euro ($111.46 million) fine on the U.S. tech giant for breaches linked to its cookies policy. Read more at Reuters.
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Consumer Reports and EPIC release paper calling on the Federal Trade Commission to pursue a privacy rulemaking
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Consumer Reports and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) today released a white paper that provides a detailed roadmap for how the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) should issue privacy rules under its unfair practices authority. Justin Brookman, director of technology policy at Consumer Reports, said, “We have been waiting decades for Congress to provide baseline…
State Legislative Trends to Watch in 2022
Frank Broomell, Jayne Ponder, Libbie Canter, and Lindsey Tonsager of Covington and Burling write: A new year means new state privacy bills introduced in states across the country. With two additional states joining California last year with the passage of the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act and the Colorado Privacy Act, it is likely that…
Privacy warning over South Australia govt demand for abortion data
Stephanie Richards reports: Proposed new abortion rules requiring doctors to hand over personal and medical information about their patients to the government may breach patient privacy and deter some from seeking help, legal groups have warned. Under regulations drafted by the government, hospital CEOs or doctors would be obliged to report a host of private…