Reed Albergotti reports: Russian oligarchs and other powerful individuals are turning to an unusual method to protect their online images: data privacy laws. Those laws, which were intended to prevent ads from tracking consumers too closely around the Internet, are now being used in the United Kingdom to sue anyone holding undesirable information on their…
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Federal Court Approves $1.1 Million TikTok Settlement Over Children’s Privacy Claims
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On March 25, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois approved a $1.1 million settlement with TikTok Inc. (“TikTok”) to resolve claims that TikTok collected children’s data and sold it to third parties without parental consent. Read more at Privacy & Information Security Law Blog.
EFF Files FOIA Lawsuit Against DHS to Shed Light on Secretive Extreme Vetting Program to Collect and Data Mine Immigrants’ Social Media Speech
SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for records about a multi-million dollar, secretive program that surveils immigrants and other foreign visitors’ speech on social media. DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) use the Visa Lifestyle Vetting Initiative (VLVI)…
EDPB Publishes Draft Guidelines on the Use of “Dark Patterns” in Social Media Interfaces
Nicholas Shepherd and Dan Cooper of Covington and Burling write: On March 21, 2022, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) published its draft Guidelines 3/2022 on Dark patterns in social media platform interfaces (hereafter “Guidelines”, available here), following the EDPB’s plenary session held on March 14, 2022. The stated objective of the Guidelines is to provide practical guidance…