Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On May 19, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced that it reached an agreement with Swiss digital game developer Miniclip, S.A. (“Miniclip”) to settle allegations that Miniclip misled consumers about its membership in a COPPA safe harbor program. In 2009, Miniclip joined the FTC-approved Children’s Advertising Review Unit (“CARU”) COPPA safe harbor…
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French DPA Issues Guidance Surrounding Practice of Web Scraping
Jeffrey Neuburger, Stéphanie Martinier, Jonathan Mollod and Mathilde Pepin of Proskauer write: On April 30, 2020, the French data protection authority, the CNIL, published a guidance surrounding considerations behind what it calls “commercial prospecting,” meaning scraping publicly available website data to obtain individuals’ contact info for purposes of selling such data to third parties for direct marketing purposes. …
Latest Nova Scotia privacy breach reveals names, medical conditions, sexual abuse details
Yvonne Colbert reports: The Nova Scotia government is saying very little about another privacy breach, this one involving an unknown number of Workers’ Compensation Board appeal decisions that include the names of workers and some intimate personal information about them. The government removed the documents after being informed by CBC that the decisions were unredacted and…
Coronavirus sparks new fight over California’s internet privacy law
Dustin Gardiner reports: California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s office is gearing up to enforce the state’s landmark internet privacy law, despite pleas from business groups that say they aren’t ready because of the coronavirus pandemic. The California Consumer Privacy Act gives people the power to tell companies not to sell their personal data and to…