Following the political agreements reached earlier this year, the Council of the European Union has approved the Digital Services Act, which governs the digital space, the protection of the basic rights of users, and measures against the distribution of illegal content.
The Digital Services Act will apply to every provider of online services offered to recipients established or located in ...
The European Commission published its long-awaited proposal for a Directive on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Liability. The draft directive aims to supplement the EU's AI law, still being negotiated by the EU institutions. At the same time, the European Commission also published its proposal to update the EU Product Liability Directive from 1985. If approved, the combined proposals will change the ...
The Israel Commissioner of Biometric Applications in the National Cyber System has issued a report highlighting that any database that includes facial images constitutes a biometric database that requires special attention, even if the quality of the images is poor and it is not presently used for verification and identification processes. The Commissioner explains that this approach is due to ...
Google has agreed to pay the state of Arizona approximately $85 million to settle a consumer privacy lawsuit alleging that Google secretly collected consumers' geolocation data on smartphones even after users disabled location tracking on their mobile devices. The Arizona Attorney General alleged that the tech giant used deceptive and unfair practices to track users' locations, even if they had ...
The Israeli government approved the governmental resolution proposed by the Minister of Justice to have the Privacy Protection Authority "be independent in the exercise of the powers granted to the head of the Authority to fulfill its duties" and "be budgeted separately within the budget of the Ministry of Justice." The government's decision states that the Authority will act independently ...
The Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) decided to impose administrative fines totaling €405 million on Meta Platforms Ireland due to Instagram’s failure to implement privacy-by-default settings for child users of the social network. In addition, the DPC also imposed a reprimand and an order requiring Meta Platforms to bring its processing into compliance within three months.
The administrative fine was ...
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