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IAB Europe to appeal Belgian DPA decision; ICCL calls on deletion of TCF data
Date posted - 15/02/2022Irish Council of Civil Liberties send letters to major advertisers calling on the deletion on digital advertising data collected via the TCF. The IAB Europe announces plans to appeal the Belgian DPA decision. And an Australian court reject's Facebooks...
23 US states now have active privacy legislation; Belgium fines IAB Europe for GDPR violations
Date posted - 07/02/2022Indiana, Washington, and Massachusetts privacy bills make progress; Wisconsin bill introduced. Meanwhile, the Belgian DPA fines IAB Europe for GDPR violations.
US states sue Google over dark patterns and German ad industry criticizes third-party cookie deprecation
Date posted - 31/01/2022State attorneys general sue Google re dark patterns, ANA urges FTC to reject surveillance ad ban, Indiana privacy bill advances to senate floor, German ad industry criticizes deprecation of third-party cookies, EDPB issues guidance re right of access, and...
Week of December 6, 2021
Date posted - 13/12/2021Ohio hears testimony in fourth hearing of the Ohio Personal Privacy Act. US dark patterns legislation would prohibit online services with more than 100M users from designing UI that obscures user choice. US Senate holds hearing on tech privacy/...
Advocacy group pushes the FTC for elevated privacy reform
Date posted - 07/12/2021Bedoya FTC nomination on delay. Advocacy group pushes FTC for elevated privacy reform. Germany telecom privacy law in effect. CJEU advocate general suggests GDPR allows for national representative GPDR action. Spain DPA says public key can be personal data....
Week of August 9, 2021
Date posted - 16/08/2021Noyb GDPR complaints are filed, CNIL releases guidelines re children, and Google blocks ad targeting of children.
A Little Privacy: week of August 2
Date posted - 09/08/2021Faceboook disables accounts of university researchers, Amazon's unprecedented GDPR fine, IAB Europe releases guide to contextual advertising.
A Little Privacy: June/July Trends
Date posted - 05/08/2021There's no summer off for privacy. June and July saw plenty of major developments in the world of data privacy over the past month or so, particularly in the US. We think three major trends deserve our attention.
A Little Privacy: week of July 26
Date posted - 30/07/2021New federal privacy legislation introduced in the US. Ad industry groups question Global Privacy Control mandate in California. Read "A Little Privacy."
A Little Privacy: week of July 20
Date posted - 27/07/2021California's new Consumer Privacy Interactive Tool lets consumers notify companies of CCPA violations. CNIL issues another round of notices. Schrems v Facebook moves to the CJEU. TikTok fined by Dutch DPA for privacy policy violation.
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