EDRI writes: You don’t have to be a civil rights defender or even an opposition voice to end up on a police list. You don’t even have to commit a crime. And yet in today’s EU, innocent people are being swept up in a police digital dragnet that risks eroding the very basis of democracy. Police forces…
California Amends Data Broker Law
Libbie Canter, Sarah Parker, and Andrew Longhi of Covington and Burling write: On October 10, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed S.B. 362, the Delete Act (the “Act”), into law. The new law represents a substantive overhaul of California’s existing data broker statute, which requires data brokers to register with the California Attorney General annually. The…
EU squeezes Meta on personal data use for targeting ads
Julien Girault reports: The European Data Protection Board said Wednesday it had adopted a binding decision that will ban Facebook and Instagram owner Meta from using the personal data of users for targeted ads without their explicit consent. The order closes off the legal basis used by Meta to freely process the personal data of…
GSK, Ancestry, 23andMe Push Montana Genetic Privacy Law Changes
Brenna Goth reports: Genetic testing companies and biotechnology groups are lobbying for revisions to a new Montana law that is more stringent than other state requirements intended to protect a consumer’s genetic data privacy, including additional oversight for increasingly popular at-home kits. The biopharma company GSK Plc and the coalition representing consumer genetic testing companies…