EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, the EU’s digital policy chief, “explicitly conveyed” to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew that the company must…
Tag: General Data Protection Regulation
Why data protection and privacy are not the same, and why that matters: Lock and Code S03E09
There’s a mistake commonly made in the United States that a law that was passed to help people move their healthcare…
WhatsApp hit with €225 million fine for GDPR violations
WhatsApp was hit with a €225 million fine for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union’s sweeping data…
Alleviating ransomware’s legal headaches with Jake Bernstein: Lock and Code S02E08
This week on Lock and Code, we speak to cybersecurity and privacy attorney Jake Bernstein about ransomware attacks that don’t just…
Data privacy law updates eyed by Singapore
In early 2019, Singapore’s data privacy regulators proposed that the country’s data privacy law could use two new updates—a data breach…
GDPR: An impact around the world
A little more than one month after the European Union enacted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to extend new data…
Washington Privacy Act welcomed by corporate and nonprofit actors
The steady parade of US data privacy legislation continued last month in Washington with the introduction of an improved bill that…
Online privacy in 2019: a legislative review
For decades, the United States treated data privacy like an aging home, patching individual leaks and drafts only when a new…
ACCESS Act might improve data privacy through interoperability
Data privacy is back in Congressional lawmakers’ sights, as a new, legislative proposal focuses not on data collection, storage, and selling,…
CEOs offer their own view of a US data privacy law
Last week, the chief executives of more than 50 mid- and large-sized companies urged Congress to pass a national data privacy…