Christopher A. Ott of Davis Wright Tremaine writes: Companies storing or moving large quantities of digital information routinely encounter subpoenas, court orders and warrants from United States law enforcement for subscriber and related data and records. However, the realities of cybercrime and recent under-publicized diplomatic activities could dramatically increase the volume of incoming requests from…
Category: Laws
GERMANY: Data Protection Authorities Issue GDPR Fining Guidelines
DLA Piper writes: On 16 October 2019 – after weeks of rumors and speculations – the German data protection authorities (‘DPAs’) published their guidelines (‘Guidelines’) for calculating administrative fines under Article 83 General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’). The Guidelines are intended to guide enforcement action by German DPAs against business ‘undertakings’. They do not apply to individuals or associations who are not acting in…
A Balancing Act: A Brief Overview of California Privacy Laws
Kamran Salour of Baker Hostetler writes: The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) takes effect on January 1, 2020. The CCPA aims to provide consumers with an unprecedented array of rights concerning the control of their personal information and, correspondingly, imposes an unprecedented array of obligations upon businesses concerning consumers’ personal information. These obligations are not…
Linking social media profiles with Aadhaar: Supreme Court transfers all cases from HCs to itself
PTI in India reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday transferred to itself all cases related to the linkage of social media profiles with Aadhaar pending in different high courts and also asked the Centre to submit its report in January to check social media misuse. A bench of justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose, while…