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Will complying with India’s privacy law…

Jan 25, 2020

"Although deviations do exist among key privacy principles, such as the PDPB's (Personal Data Protection Bill) data localization requirement, a...

The challenge of adequacy with Brazil’s General Data Protection Law

Jan 23, 2020

"Compliance with the Brazilian General Data Protection Law has proven to be an essential and complex challenge for organizations. The lack of a...

Personal Data Leaked To Gambling Companies

Jan 21, 2020

"Despite the new customer identity verification rules introduced by the UK Gambling Commission, effective May 7, 2019 as part of their three-year...

Europe’s privacy overhaul has led to $126 million in fines

Jan 20, 2020

The EU’s GDPR privacy law led to over 160,000 data breach notifications, according to law firm DLA Piper. The biggest penalty under GDPR to date was...

Facial recognition: EU considers ban of up to five years

Jan 18, 2020

"Regulators want time to work out how to prevent the technology being abused. The technology allows faces captured on CCTV to be checked in real...

Google wants to make third-party cookies obsolete

Jan 15, 2020

"The company revealed plans to phase out third-party cookies recently on the official Chromium blog to increase "the privacy of web browsing". ...

Washington State Takes Another Pass at a Privacy Law

Jan 15, 2020

"Like the proposal that failed last year, Senate Bill 6281 would apply to companies large and small conducting business in Washington that control...

EU Parliament debates: Could California be considered ‘adequate’ on its own?

Jan 9, 2020

"Could California have its own Privacy Shield arrangement separate from the rest of the U.S.? That was the most exciting question that emerged from...