From Hunton Andrews Kurth: On July 1, 2020, amendments to Vermont’s data breach notification law, signed into law earlier this year, will take effect along with Vermont’s new student privacy law. Security Breach Notice Act The amendments to Vermont’s Security Breach Notice Act include expanding the definition of Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”), expanding the definition of a…
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Google Loses $56 Million Fight in French Test of EU Privacy Law
Gaspard Sebag reports: Alphabet Inc.’s Google lost its fight over a 50 million-euro ($56 million) privacy fine in France — the biggest penalty levied so far under the European Union’s beefed-up data-protection rules. France’s top administrative court ruled on Friday that Google didn’t deliver sufficiently clear and transparent information to Android users and didn’t give them…
KE: Telcos to Reveal Customer Data Under Proposed Law
Cynthia Kenyali reports: The government will be able to access Kenyans’ personal data if a proposed Bill is signed into law. The Bill tabled in the National Assembly on Tuesday, June 16 seeks to allow Telecommunication firms in Kenya to reveal customers’ data to the government. “Where it appears to the Cabinet Secretary that it is in the…
New York City Passes New Surveillance Transparency Law
From EPIC.org: [On June 18], the New York City Council passed the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology (POST) Act, a law that enables public oversight of surveillance technologies used by the New York Police Department. The POST Act will require the police to publish documents explaining their use of surveillance technologies, accept public comments about them,…