Joseph Cox reports: The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA), a new federal privacy bill that has actually a chance of becoming law, is designed to introduce new privacy protections for Americans. But it may also have the side effect of wiping out $200 million worth of fines proposed against some of the country’s biggest telecommunications companies as part…
Category: Laws
FTC: Commercial Surveillance and Data Security Rulemaking
From the FTC: Commercial surveillance is the business of collecting, analyzing, and profiting from information about people. Technologies essential to everyday life also enable near constant surveillance of people’s private lives. The volume of data collected exposes people to identity thieves and hackers. Mass surveillance has heightened the risks and stakes of errors, deception, manipulation,…
India withdraws personal data protection bill that alarmed tech giants
Manish Singh reports: The Indian government has withdrawn its long-awaited Personal Data Protection Bill that drew scrutiny from several privacy advocates and tech giants who feared the legislation could restrict how they managed sensitive information while giving government broad powers to access it. The move comes as a surprise as lawmakers had indicated recently that…
A Cautious Approach: the UK Government’s Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Mark Young, Paul Maynard, Jasmine Agyekum, and Tomos Griffiths of Covington & Burling write: On 18 July 2022, following its recent response to the public consultation on the reform of UK data protection law (see our blog post on the response here), the UK Government introduced its draft Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (the “Bill”) to the…