Global Privacy and Cybersecurity Law Updates and Analysis
The U.S. Chamber’s Technology Engagement Center (“C_TEC”) and Center for Global Regulatory Cooperation (“GRC”) recently released a set of ten principles essential for attaining the full potential of AI technologies.
The principles, drafted with input from more than 50 Chamber member companies, stress the importance of creating a sensible and innovation-forward approach to addressing the challenges and opportunities presented by AI.
On September 23, 2019, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada announced that it completed its consultation on transfers for processing and that the OPC’s current guidelines for processing personal data across borders—under which consent for transfers to data processors is not required—remain unchanged.…
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On September 10, 2019, the French data protection authority updated its existing set of questions and answers (“FAQs”) on the impact of a no-deal Brexit on data transfers from the EU to the UK and discussed how controllers should prepare.…
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California marked the end of the 2019 legislative session this past Friday, September 13, by passing five out of six pending bills to amend the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. This blog entry provides a summary on the bills.…
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There are six bills pending before the California legislature that would amend the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, and these bills could significantly alter the law’s application and associated compliance obligations.…
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On September 6, 2019, the National Institute of Standards and Technology released a preliminary draft of its Privacy Framework: A Tool for Improving Privacy Through Enterprise Risk Management.…
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As an update to our previous blog posts, the FTC announced that it and the New York Attorney General reached a $170 million agreement with Google to resolve allegations that the company violated COPPA through its YouTube platform. Under the agreement, Google will pay $136 million to the FTC and $34 million to New York. The FTC voted 3-2 to authorize the action.…
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As an update to our previous blog post, according to media reports, Google has reached a settlement with the FTC in the range of $150 to $200 million over the agency’s investigation into the company’s alleged violations of COPPA through its YouTube platform. The settlement has not been announced by the FTC or Google, and the details of the settlement have not been made publicly available.…
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On August 15, 2019, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office announced that it had launched an investigation into the use of live facial recognition technology at the King’s Cross development in London.…
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On August 8, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit allowed a class action brought by Illinois residents to proceed against Facebook under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. This blog entry provides details on the case.…
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