Makena Kelly reports: Sen. Amy Klobuchar is back with a bill to protect consumer data privacy when collected by large tech platforms like Facebook and Google. Klobuchar (D-MN) has teamed up with a bipartisan group of senators, including Sens. John Kennedy (R-LA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Richard Burr (R-NC), to reintroduce the Social Media Privacy…
Category: Laws
UK: Amex fined for sending four million unlawful emails
Fromt the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined American Express Services Europe Limited (Amex) £90,000 for sending more than four million marketing emails to customers who did not want to receive them. The ICO began investigating when it received complaints from Amex customers who were getting marketing emails despite having opted out from…
The Belgian Constitutional Court Annuls Data Retention Act
Heidi Waem and Gert-Jan Fraeyman of DLA Piper write: On 22 April 2021, the Belgian Constitutional Court annulled the Act of 29 May 2016 on the collection and storage of data in the electronic communications sector (the Data Retention Act). This judgment, which follows a decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) pursuant to…
Jp: Victim of police privacy breach warns against new data laws
Tomoaki Ito reports: A man who police collected information on and then leaked to a third party is speaking out against new laws that he believes could lead to greater monitoring of citizens by the state. Under the new digital reform measures, government agencies will be allowed to pass on any information on citizens to…