On February 8, 2016, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) issued a formal notice to Facebook to comply within three months with the French Data Protection Act. According to CNIL, among other violations, Facebook is breaching French Data Protection Laws by transferring “personal data to the United States on the basis of Safe Harbour, although the […]
On February 2, 2016, the EU Commission and the U.S. government approved the EU-U.S. “Privacy Shield”. This new framework reflects the requirements set out by the European Court of Justice in its ruling of October 6, 2015, which declared the old Safe Harbor framework invalid (see here for more information). The new Privacy Shield will […]
On January 28, 2016, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved an amended version of the Judicial Redress Act (Bill H.R. 1428). The Bill gives to citizens of certain countries a right to pursue their privacy rights in US courts. To be true, the Bill empowers the Attorney General to identify those countries whose citizens enjoy privacy protection. The amendment is the […]
After postponing action last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on the Judicial Redress Act (Bill H.R. 1428), today at 10 am (see here). The Bill gives to citizens of certain countries a right to pursue their privacy rights in US courts. The adoption of the Bill is of particular importance after the Safe Harbor […]
A California law [1] that went into effect January 1, 2016 aims to protect the privacy of consumers who may be unaware of the extent to which the “internet of things” has invaded their living rooms or bedrooms. Assembly Bill 1116 targets smart televisions that have voice recognition features, and requires manufacturers of those TVs to […]
On January 25, 2016, the US government responded to EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) ’s FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request and released in full the European Union-United States data protection “Umbrella Agreement”. The European Commission had already made the file publicly available on its website (see here) starting on September 2015. The US Government highlighted […]
According this source, the US have suggested the creation of an ombudsman to try to solve the issue created by the invalidation of the Safe Harbor. The ombudsman would be available to check on the U.S. government’ s access to EU personal data. The ombudsman would be in the State Department. As well known, the end of January is the […]
On December 4, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard the oral argument made in the case brought by United States Telecom Association (USTA) against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). USTA challenges FCC’s authority to regulate net neutrality and classifying broadband Internet providers as utility providers (or common carriers) […]
On December 18, 2015, the President signed into law bill H.R. 2029, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, the so called end-of-year omnibus spending package. The law was criticized by the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) (see here), which claims that Congress added some parts of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (Cisa). According to the […]
The author suggests five “relatively simple ways to improve information security and reduce the impact of a potential data breach” for organizations. The full text is available at http://www.dataprivacymonitor.com…