The FTC is stepping up privacy enforcement – reports Bloomberg Law‘s Sara Merken.
“The Federal Trade Commission is issuing specific data security requirements to companies as part of agency settlements, policing businesses more aggressively than before, attorneys and former staff said.”
“Mandates in related consent orders, such as directing senior officers to provide
Is the FTC’s Google-YouTube settlement a “game changer”?
“It’s three times larger than any privacy penalty assessed against Google anywhere else in the world, and it is 10 times larger than the civil penalties we have obtained in all of our 31 prior COPPA cases combined… A penalty of this magnitude sends a strong signal
The Federal Trade Commission and New York Attorney General have entered into landmark settlement with Google and YouTube for alleged violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule.
The settlement requires Google and YouTube to pay $136 million to the FTC and $34 million to New York, the largest penalty since the law
The Federal Trade Commission has approved a final consent order settling charges that a background screening company falsely claimed to be in compliance with the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield frameworks.
SecurTest, Inc. agreed in June to settle FTC charges that its website falsely claimed that it participated in the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield
Tell me don’t sell me.
In a new settlement order with the Federal Trade Commission, Unrollme was ordered to notify all its active users of the fact that it accesses or collects email purchase receipts for use in market research products that are sold to third parties and to delete the information of anyone that
CISO members of the Retail & Hospitality Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RH-ISAC) published a white paper to help cybersecurity leaders in retail and hospitality prepare for compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Key recommendations from the white paper:
Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) introduced a bill on Wednesday that would limit the use of voter data by political campaigns.
The legislation is being touted as the first bill “directly responding to Cambridge Analytica.”
Feinstein’s Voter Privacy Act seeks to give voters more control over the data collected on them by political campaigns and organizations.
A bipartisan pair of senators has drafted a data privacy bill that would give the Federal Trade Commission more enforcement tools, while preempting state laws.
Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) now writing their own bill in a bid to see if they can attract the support of other lawmakers, as the August
“A loose coalition of privacy-minded digital rights groups and policymakers is crafting a strategy to rein in facial recognition technology in cities across the country. ”
“Three cities thus far have banned government use of the technology: San Francisco, Somerville, a suburb of Boston, and now Oakland. Using facial recognition bans in those cities as
“We would like the chance to think about it first”
Feedback from 1,200 Irish school children on key issues of data protection provides insight and some actionable steps for companies processing children’s information and subject to the EU GDPR (or to the US COPPA).