privacy law
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Oof, the Prospects of That Big New Privacy Bill In U.S. Congress Look Grim
House Republicans want to drastically change a federal privacy bill that Democrats in the Senate are also threatening to murder. The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) is one of the few pieces of privacy legislation to get the time of day on Capitol Hill in the last few years — even if looks…
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The Hidden Failure of the World’s Biggest Privacy Law
This week, European authorities struck a massive blow to the digital data-mining industrial complex with a new ruling stating that, quite simply, most of those annoying cookie alert banners that sites were forced to onboard en masse after GDPR was passed haven’t… actually been compliant with GDPR. Sorry.
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Snap Faces Investor Lawsuit After Apple’s Privacy Updates Tank Advertising Revenue
Snap is facing a lawsuit from one of its shareholders for allegedly exaggerating how well it could adapt to the privacy updates Apple rolled out earlier this year, Reuters reports.
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China Just Passed a Major Data Privacy Law — With a Big, Government-Sized Loophole
When covid-19 cases started surging through China last year, we saw the country’s already authoritarian surveillance systems get kicked into overdrive. Officials rolled out everything from face-detecting drones and mandated movement-tracking apps to literally harvesting citizen’s blood in order to stem the flow of the virus. Going into 2o21, the country had clearly reached a…