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European Companies’ Participation in Privacy Shield Up Nearly 30% from the Past Year. EU-US Privacy Shield Remains Essential to Leading European Companies. From Major Employers such as Logitech and Siemens to Leading Technology Firms like Telefónica and SAP, European Companies Depend on the EU-US Agreement. The Privacy Shield Program Supports…

The European Union’s top court struck down a key method used by Facebook Inc. and other companies to transfer data across the Atlantic amid fears over potential U.S. surveillance. Thursday’s decision by the EU Court of Justice on the so-called Privacy Shield means thousands of businesses that ship commercial data…

The California Consumer Privacy Act enters the enforcement phase on July 1, despite pleas by some business groups to delay it because of Covid-19 coronavirus impacts. This means that California’s Attorney General will be able to take direct action against businesses that violate the privacy protection requirements of the CCPA.…

Following a court decision on Friday (22 June 2020), it is now highly likely that California will introduce legislation that curtails “cross-context behavioral advertising”.  A court decision on Friday (19 June 2020) makes it highly likely that Californians will vote on the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the successor to…

The UK risks throwing away the possibility of a data adequacy agreement ensuring the free flow of personal data between the UK and the European Union (EU) after the Brexit transition period ends, if it cannot be proved that there are sufficient safeguards included in the UK-US agreement on data…

As authorities and companies explore surveillance tools to fight the coronavirus and reopen the U.S. economy, many federal lawmakers agree that privacy protections are key. But proposals for safeguards unveiled in recent weeks have crashed into two familiar roadblocks in the U.S. Senate. Many Republicans want federal law to override…

Surveillance in the US goes back to the transatlantic slave trade, and its use has entirely targeted or had the worst impact on marginalized and systemically oppressed communities.PHOTOGRAPH: MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS used surveillance technology to monitor participants of the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests, as it has with…

With the stringent new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which goes into effect on January 1, 2020, the top technology companies in the United States are starting to position themselves for a completely new operating environment in less than two months. Seattle-based Microsoft is now the first major tech company…

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) fines video game publisher HyperBeard $150,000 for illegally collecting children’s data You shouldn’t and can’t save children’s data!!! This is not much difficult to understand but companies have over the years been disregarding this basic tech tenet with impunity. First, it was TikTok who is being…

(Bloomberg) — Google surreptitiously amasses billions of bits of information –every day — about internet users even if they opt out of sharing their information, three consumers alleged in a proposed class action lawsuit. “Google tracks and collects consumer browsing history and other web activity data no matter what safeguards…