Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: The Civil Code of China (the “Civil Code”) was approved by the National People’s Congress of China on May 28, 2020 and will take effect January 1, 2021. Part Four of the Civil Code explicitly stipulates that the “Right of Privacy” is one of the “Rights of Personality” covered therein and…
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UK and Aussie privacy watchdogs to investigate Clearview AI
Jamie Davies reports: Privacy authorities in the UK and Australia have announced a joint investigation into Clearview AI, a US firm which provides facial recognition technologies. In what might be seen as an ironic sequence of events, as the US acts the international cheerleader to combat the Chinese threat to cybersecurity and privacy, two of…
Police Are Buying Access to Hacked Website Data
Joseph Cox reports: Hackers break into websites, steal information, and then publish that data all the time, with other hackers or scammers then using it for their own ends. But breached data now has another customer: law enforcement. […] The sale highlights a somewhat novel use of breached data, and signals how data ordinarily associated…
Does First Amendment let ISPs sell Web-browsing data? Judge is skeptical
Jon Brodkin reports: The broadband industry has lost a key initial ruling in its bid to kill a privacy law imposed by the state of Maine. The top lobby groups representing cable companies, mobile carriers, and telecoms sued Maine in February, claiming the privacy law violates their First Amendment protections on free speech and that the…