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…
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India’s Data Protection Bill 2023: Everything we need to know
Rakesh Kumar reports: The government introduced the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill, 2023, on Thursday to ‘safeguard’ citizens’ data. This is the third version of the bill, the work on which has been going on since 2017. It was the year when the apex court of the country ruled that privacy is a fundamental right…
This California agency wants to know what happens to all that connected car data
Kirsten Korosec and Zack Whittaker report: The troves of data collected by today’s modern connected cars has long been viewed as a cash cow — a yet untapped opportunity that could boost profits for automakers. Now one California agency wants to know exactly how that data might be used. The California Privacy Protection Agency announced…
Judge blocks Idaho prosecution of out-of-state abortion referrals
Daniel Trotta reports: A U.S. judge on Monday blocked the state of Idaho at least temporarily from prosecuting doctors who refer patients out of state to get an abortion, finding that would violate a medical provider’s right to free speech. U.S. District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill agreed with a challenge led by Planned Parenthood…