Privacy

“Brother! You doubting Thomases get in the way of more scientific advances with your stupid ethical questions! This is a brilliant idea! Hit the button, will ya?” Calvin addressing Hobbes regarding the ‘Duplicator‘ (Waterson, 1990) While talk about a post-COVID-19 world is ripe, reflecting more the desire for an economic relaunch than…

Do you trust companies like Facebook to accurately and completely tell you how, and to what extent, their apps monitor and track you both on your phone and across the entire internet? The question is not a rhetorical one, as Apple’s latest privacy push relies on the answer to that…

In December 2017, the INDU Committee released the CASL Review.  According to the Report: “The statutory review of CASL took place between September 26 and December 12, 2017. Throughout that period, the Committee held 13 meetings, heard from 41 witnesses and received 29 briefs from a wide array of stakeholders…

A more connected world brings opportunities for partnerships and increased personalization, but more customer data also highlights the need for increased data security. As cybersecurity threats increase, more consumers are concerned about who has their data and how it is used. New regulations have been put in place around the…

South Africa finally has data protection legislation! Although the right to privacy has been enshrined as a fundamental right in the Bill of Rights since 1996, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy Joseph Cannataci said in March South Africa is “about 30 years behind” in implementing its…

LONDON (AP) — British regulators want new rules to foster competition in digital advertising markets and rein in the industry’s dominant players, Google and Facebook. The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at the U.S. tech giants in a report Wednesday that recommends the British government adopt a new regulatory…

(Bloomberg) — India banned ByteDance Ltd.’s viral short-video service TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps, citing threats to its sovereignty and security as relations between the world’s two largest populations worsened. The unprecedented moratorium, announced days after border tensions in the Himalayas left 20 Indian soldiers dead, deals a blow…

Thank you to Cristina Onosé, Sarah Nasrullah and Haley Fine for your assistance in developing this article and support.  Executive Summary The renegotiated North-American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA 2.0, will have a significant impact on companies. The fundamental concept in the United States, Mexico and Canada Agreement is the…

Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies House of Lords London SW1A 0PW 6 January 2020 Evidence regarding “real-time bidding” I represent Brave, the private web browser. Brave’s CEO invented JavaScript, and co-founded Firefox. Brave is headquartered in San Francisco, and has an office in London. 1. Real-time bidding causes…

On June 12, 2020, the day before the Québec National Assembly adjourned until September 2020, the Government of Québec introduced Bill 64, An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information. The proposal would bring significant changes to Québec private sector and public sector privacy law.…