AP reports: Norway’s data privacy watchdog on Wednesday fined gay dating app Grindr 65 million kroner ($7.16 million) for sending sensitive personal data to hundreds of potential advertising partners without users’ consent — a breach of strict European Union privacy rules. The Norwegian Data Protection Authority said it imposed its highest fine to date because…
Category: Laws
This Is Not the Privacy Bill You’re Looking For
Hayley Tsukayama writes: Lawmakers looking for a starting place on privacy legislation should pass on The Uniform Law Commission’s Uniform Personal Data Protection Act (UPDPA). The Uniform Law Commission (ULC) seeks to write model legislation that can be adopted in state legislatures across the country to set national standards. Sadly, the ULC has fumbled its consumer privacy…
Murder defendant challenges police use of ‘tower dump’
Shira Schoenberg reports: In 2018, law enforcement officers were investigating five armed robberies and a sixth attempt in Dorchester, Mattapan, and Canton, one of which led to a fatal shooting. The police believed the same perpetrator, with a getaway driver, committed all the robberies, but they didn’t have a suspect. So they obtained search warrants for cell phone data from the towers closest to the robberies,…
Saudi Arabia Issues New Personal Data Protection Law
Tarek Khanachet, Julie Teperow, and Antonio Michaelides of Covington & Burling write: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has recently issued its first comprehensive national data protection law. The Personal Data Protection Law will enter into force on March 23, 2022 and regulates the collection, processing and use of personal data in the Kingdom. Organizations with…