Martin Coulter reports: Britain’s data regulator is gathering information on Snapchat to establish whether the U.S. instant messaging app is doing enough to remove underage users from its platform, two people familiar with the matter said. Reuters reported exclusively in March that Snapchat owner Snap Inc had only removed a few dozen children aged under-13 from its…
Category: Laws
Russian bill to hide the PII data of military, police, and intelligence agents
Catalin Cimpanu writes: The Russian government has submitted a bill to the Duma (the Russian Parliament) that would grant the military, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies the power to edit, anonymize, or delete the personal data of certain groups of people—presumably their own employees. At first reading, the proposed law appears to allow these agencies to freely…
Judge partially blocks Texas abortion ban for medical emergencies, fatal diagnoses
Nadine El-Bawab reports: A Texas judge granted a temporary injunction on Texas’ multiple abortion bans on Friday, allowing abortions in cases of medical emergencies and fatal fetal diagnoses while litigation continues in an ongoing lawsuit filed by women alleging Texas’ bans put their lives in danger. The judge also denied the state’s request to throw out…
India’s Lower House of Parliament Approves Data Privacy Bill
Sankalp Phartiyal reports: India’s lower house of parliament Monday approved a privacy bill that seeks to ease data storage, processing and transfer norms for BigTech companies as well as Indian firms seeking growth abroad. The proposed legislation, which has been years in the making, allows companies to export data to any country except those New…