Martha Bebinger reports: Huddled around a small conference table in Greater Boston, fewer than a dozen volunteers form an ad hoc assembly line to slip hundreds of pills into padded envelopes. It’s not an illegal drug operation, at least not here in Massachusetts. But, the volunteers’ work to fill online prescription requests could risk criminal…
Category: Laws
TikTok fined 530 million euros by EU regulator over data protection
Reuters reports: TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($600 million) by its lead EU privacy regulator on Friday over concerns on how it protects user information and was ordered to suspend data transfers to China if its processing is not brought into compliance within six months. Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) said TikTok, owned by…
Belgium Rules Sharing Americans’ Bank Data Violates Privacy Law
Caleb Harshberger reports: A Belgian agency ruled that the government’s sharing of Americans’ financial information with the IRS under a US law violates European data protection laws. The US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA, requires reporting of foreign bank account information to the US agency. The Belgian Data Protection Authority issued the ruling Thursday, saying…
FTC Publishes Final COPPA Rule Amendments
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On April 22, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission published in the Federal Register final amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (the “Rule”). The Rule will go into effect 60 days from publication, on or about June 21, 2025, with a compliance deadline of April 22, 2026. The Rule retains many…