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The Spanish Data Protection Authority (AEPD) recently fined SEAT, S.A. €20,000 for improperly placing cookies on its website without obtaining proper user consent, violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The investigation revealed...
On June 20, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ordered the Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), to vacate its guidance restricting HIPAA-covered entities’ use of third-party online...
A primary concern of data privacy laws like Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is that of consent, which has a large impact on whether or not an organization is authorized to collect, process, and store personal information from...
On July 10, 2023, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework entered into effect, opening up the safe transfer of data between the US and the 27 countries in the European Union (plus Norway, Lichtenstein, and Iceland). According to Article 44 of the GDPR,...
UK regulators recently signaled that they would take a more pro-business approach to individual data privacy, and GDPR regulators aren’t happy about it, stating that the adequacy decision granted to the UK will be severed if the UK government’s...
Ohio is the most recent US state to consider a comprehensive consumer data privacy regulation for its citizens. Should the Ohio Personal Privacy Act (“OPPA”) pass, it will follow California, Virginia and Colorado in improving its state privacy laws...
Last week, the UK announced plans to change data protection and privacy laws, in a potential departure from the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), which governs data privacy in the EU. The UK’s new mission statement regarding these changes...
As we wrote last year, the San Francisco-based Fintech company Plaid was subject to a lawsuit alleging that the company committed a number of California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) violations. Reuters has now reported that Plaid has agreed to pay...
China passed the Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”), on August 20, 2021, with the law effective beginning November 1, 2021. The PIPL is essentially China’s version of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”): a comprehensive...
A report released Tuesday by KPMG shows that consumers are increasingly concerned with companies’ data collection, processing and storage practices, and offer advice for businesses on how to address those concerns. The report is based on two online...
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