Diwakar Dayal reports:Complying with DPDP 2023 Since 2017, India has worked on developing its own laws on the right to privacy. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, India’s version of Europe’s GDPR, gives Indian citizens the right to protect their own data. In August of this year, both the lower and upper houses of…
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GW Law School Launches the GW Center for Law & Technology
Privacy law scholar and professor Dan Solove sends this great news along: I’m excited to share a press release from GW Law School announcing our new GW Center for Law & Technology. Through the Center, we’re building out our privacy and tech curriculum and activities, including: We created a new JD Concentration in Privacy, Data Security, and Technology….
FCC Partners With States to Increase on Privacy and Data Protection Investigations, Signaling Increased Focus on Future Enforcement
Jonathan P. Garvin of Mintz writes: The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) announced Thursday that in furtherance of the work of the agency’s Privacy and Data Protection Task Force, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau signed Memoranda of Understanding (“MOU”) with the Attorneys General of Connecticut, Illinois, New York, and Pennsylvania to share expertise and resources and to coordinate efforts conducting…
The House Intelligence Committee’s Surveillance ‘Reform’ Bill is a Farce
India McKinney of EFF writes: Earlier this week, both the House Committee on the Judiciary (HJC) and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) marked up two very different bills (H.R. 6570 – Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act in HJC, and HR 6611, the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023 in HPSCI),…