Zack Whittaker reports: A newly released draft intelligence bill, passed by the Senate Intelligence Committee last week, would require the government to detail the threats posed by commercial spyware and surveillance technology. The annual intelligence authorization bill, published Thursday, would take aim at private sector spyware makers, like NSO Group and Hacking Team, who build spyware and…
Category: Laws
Broadband Industry Fights To Block Maine’s ‘Outlier’ Privacy Law
Wendy Davis reports: Maine’s new broadband privacy law is “an extreme outlier,” industry lobbying groups are telling a federal judge. The law, slated for enforcement in August, requires internet service providers to obtain customers’ opt-in consent before using web-browsing data for ad targeting. A coalition of broadband lobbying groups sued in February to block the…
New York Legislators Dump Law That Allowed PDs To Withhold Officers’ Disciplinary Records
Tim Cushing writes: More than 40 years after a law went on the books in New York allowing cops, firefighters, and corrections officers to have their disciplinary records hidden from the public, the NYPD suddenly decided to start following the law. For years, the NYPD gave journalists access to “Personnel Orders,” which detailed the outcomes of closed internal investigations….
Belgian Supervisory Authority Decision on Lodging GDPR Complaints
Kristof Van Quathem of Covington & Burling writes: On June 8, 2020, the Belgian Supervisory Authority (“SA”) fined a (then ex-) politician €5,000 for sending political marketing materials without an appropriate legal basis. Although the fine was not massive, the case is interesting for another reason: the complaint was brought not by the individuals who received the…