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. …
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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…
U.S. judge blocks Twitter’s bid to reveal government surveillance requests
Kanishka Singh reports: Twitter Inc will not be able to reveal surveillance requests it received from the U.S. government after a federal judge accepted government arguments that this was likely to harm national security after a near six-year long legal battle. The social media company had sued the U.S. Department of Justice in 2014 to…