From Hunton: On May 2, 2018, the Belgian Privacy Commission (the “Belgian DPA”) published its Annual Activity Report for 2017 (the “Annual Report”), highlighting its main accomplishments for the past year. In 2017, the Belgian DPA focused on the following topics: EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The Belgian DPA issued a number of documents…
Category: Govt
US cell carriers are selling access to your real-time phone location data
Zack Whittaker reports: Four of the largest cell giants in the US are selling your real-time location data to a company that you’ve probably never heard about before. In case you missed it, a senator last week sent a letter demanding the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigate why Securus, a prison technology company, can track…
FTC Issues Warning Letters for Potential COPPA Violations
From Hunton: On April 27, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission issued two warning letters to foreign marketers of geolocation tracking devices for violations of the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). The first letter was directed to a Chinese company, Gator Group, Ltd., that sold the “Kids GPS Gator Watch” (marketed as a child’s…
Teen files FTC complaint after IMDb refuses to remove phony page claiming he’s a movie producer
Recently, a teenager reminded me how intimidating it can be when you’re trying to change things, but are acutely aware of being “just a teenager.” It’s been a looooong time since I ever felt that way, of course, but as I listened to his story, I felt some of the anxiety he was experiencing. “Kenny”…