News Alerts and Breach Report for Week of July 10, 2023
New Generative AI Tool For Hackers Launches According to The Hacker News, a new generative AI cybercrime tool called WormGPT…
Did Meta Force User Consent?
On January 4, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced it had taken enforcement actions against Facebook and Instagram’s parent …
News Alerts and Breach Report for Week of November 28, 2022
Meta Fined for GDPR Violation Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has incurred another fine for its mishandling of personal …
United Kingdom Scraps GDPR
On October 3, the UK’s newest Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Michelle Donelan, affirmed the UK
News Alerts and Breach Report for Week of July 18, 2022
Government Agencies at Odds Over Location Data Privacy According to records obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ..
News Alerts and Breach Report for Week of May 30, 2022
Quebec Updates Data Privacy Law Starting in September 2022, Quebec’s Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private .
How to conduct Data Protection Impact Assessment under GDPR
One of the most important ways to demonstrate your company’s compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is ..
EDPB Guidance for Dark Patterns
On March 14, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published draft guidelines on “dark patterns.” The guidelines are intended to ..
News and Alerts for May 3, 2022
Connecticut Legislators Pass Data Privacy Bill The Connecticut Data Privacy Act (“CTDPA”) was approved by the Connecticut House of Representatives ..
The Metaverse and Data Privacy Issues
In October 2021, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook was rebranding as “Meta,” and that Meta was working on creating the ..
News and Alerts for April 5, 2022
Russian Lawsuits Highlight Flaws in UK Data Privacy Law Russian Oligarchs are using the United Kingdom’s General Data Protection Regulation ..
Why Organizations Need to Start Implementing Data Minimization
When the European Union (EU) enacted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on May 2, 2018, the world was introduced ..