The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a press release announcing that Epic Games, Inc. will pay a $275 million penalty for alleging violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), change default privacy settings, and pay $245 million in refunds for tricking users into making unwanted charges. Continue reading the press release here.
On 18 November 2022, the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology published the ‘Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022’, along with an Explanatory Note and sought for feedback from public by the 17th of December 2022. The deadline is now extended to the 2nd of January 2023 following a push in that direction by...
The press release of the Slovenian Ministry of Justice announces that the Slovenian National Assembly, with 50 votes in favor and eight against, adopted the Personal Data Protection Act with which the government transposes the European General Data Protection Regulation into Slovenian legislation, and regulates the national peculiarities of personal data protection. Find the press...
The US Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has released the “Intelligence Community Directive 126: Implementation Procedures for the Signals Intelligence Redress Mechanism under Executive Order 14086 which establishes, on the US side, the EU-US draft privacy framework. This Directive governs the handling of redress complaints regarding certain signals intelligence activities, as required by Sections...
The European Commission has formally initiated the process for adopting an adequacy decision on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. However, also this version (the third) is not exempt from legal challenges. Read more on Euronews
Read this article by Odia Kagan to learn more on how to face these uncertain times on data protection compliance. Read the article here
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