New Privacy Laws Taking Effect Next Year Five new privacy laws will come into effect in 2023. State laws from California and Virginia will take effect January 1, 2023, while laws from Colorado, and Connecticut laws will take effect in…
On October 26, Australian Attorney General Mark Dreyfus presented the Australian parliament with the Privacy Legislation Amendment (Enforcement and Other Measures) Bill 2022, (Bill). If approved, the Bill will implement significant amendments to the Australian Privacy Act 1988. According to…
Meta Fined for GDPR Violation Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has incurred another fine for its mishandling of personal information. The most recent $275 million fine, levied by the Irish Data Protection Authority, brings Meta’s total GDPR fines in…
Google Pays $392 Million For Ad-Tracking Violations A probe into Google’s ad-tracking practices concluded with a settlement announced this week. According to NPR, the attorneys general of 40 U.S. states say that “since at least 2014, Google broke consumer protection…
Legislators Express Concern About ANPR to FTC Last week, U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan, urging her to reevaluate the FTC’s Proposed Rulemaking…
ADCG reported that on October 7, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to support a data transfer agreement between the European Union (EU) and United States (US). On October 24, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a report titled…
On October 7, 2022, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to secure a data transfer agreement between the European Union (EU) and United States (US). Many industry experts are hopeful that this Agreement “could be the crucial step necessary”…
Department of Justice Announces New Data Sharing Agreement with the United Kingdom On October 3, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that the Access to Electronic Data for the Purpose of Countering Serious Crime is now in effect. Under this…
News Alerts and Breach Report for Week of October 17, 2022 Implications of Pending EU-US Data Transfer Agreement Earlier this month, President Biden issued an executive order restricting how US intelligence services gather data that belongs to EU citizens. The…
On October 3, the UK’s newest Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Michelle Donelan, affirmed the UK government’s intention to move away from the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The UK government has already proposed…
