Joseph Cox reports: A sweeping proposed piece of legislation with support from both Democrats and Republicans will ban law enforcement agencies from buying data from controversial firm Clearview AI, as well as force agencies to obtain a warrant before sourcing location data from brokers. The news presents significant action against two of the main avenues…
Category: Laws
Florida House of Representatives Passes Florida Privacy Protection Act
From EPIC.org: The Florida House of Representatives today passed the Florida Privacy Protection Act, HB 969, on a 118-1 vote. The bill gives Floridians the right to know what information companies have collected about them, the right to delete and correct that information, the right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of their personal information,…
Case launched against TikTok over collection of children’s data
Haroon Siddique reports: A former children’s commissioner for England has launched a “landmark case” against the video-sharing app TikTok, alleging that it illegally collects the personal information of its child users. Anne Longfield, who held the commissioner post between March 2015 and February this year, has lodged a claim in the high court on behalf of…
Inside Privacy Audiocast: Episode 13 – Data Privacy Developments in Israel
Dan Cooper of Covington & Burling writes: On Episode 13 of Covington’s Inside Privacy Audiocast, Dan Cooper is joined by Dotan Hammer, a Partner in the Internet, Cyber & Copyright Group at Pearl Cohen, to discuss recent privacy developments in Israel, including Israel’s data-economy relations with the EU and the U.S. Access the audiocast on InsidePrivacy.