Insights to Israel: Cybersecurity
Haim Ravia and Dotan Hammer have authored the Israel: Cybersecurity chapter, published by OneTrust's DataGuidance.
Ukraine Says Russia’s Cyber-Attacks Are War Crimes
Senior officials in the Ukraine government alleged that Russia's cyber-attacks against Ukrainian infrastructure constitute war crimes. The Chief Digital Transformation Officer at the Special Communications and Information Protection Authority (SSSCIP), accused Russia of launching cyber-attacks in coordination with kinetic military attacks as part of its invasion of Ukraine and emphasized that the digital warfare is part of what Ukraine considers ...
EDPB Issues Do’s and Don’ts Regarding Cookies
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published a draft document that explains the common view of the EU data protection authorities on the 'do' and 'don't' rules for the use of cookies. The document was compiled by a dedicated task force of the national data protection authorities in EU member states that handle the hundreds of complaints filed by ...
FTC Proposes a Ban on Non-Compete Clauses in Employment Agreements
The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has published a proposal for new regulations that would prohibit employers from having their employees sign any provision in the employment agreement that prevents the employees from working with the competitor, whether or not briefly. The FTC announced that it has determined that these terms constitute an unfair practice against the competition, in ...
Meta Hit with a €390 Million Fine for GDPR Violations
The Data Protection Commission of Ireland was driven by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) to issue an enforcement decision against Facebook and Instagram which proscribes their processing of personal data for targeted advertising absent the user's informed, freely given, specific, and withdrawable consent. The Irish regulator also fined the two companies an aggregate penalty of 390 million Euros.
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Copyright Lawsuits Against Image Generators that Use Artificial Intelligence
Three artists filed a class action lawsuit in the United States alleging that image generators based on artificial intelligence (AI) violate the copyrights of millions of artists when they use their works without their consent.
The defendants are Midjourney, Stability AI, and DeviantArt which operate image generators that rely on significant amounts of content to train their algorithms to generate ...
EDPB Issues Report on Coordinated Enforcement Action in Public Sector Use of Cloud Services
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published a report that consolidates the findings of all national supervisory authorities participating in the Coordinated Enforcement Action (CEF) on the use of cloud-based services by the public sector.
The challenges identified include performing a risk assessment regarding data protection and the roles of the parties in this regard, control of public bodies over ...
U.S. Decides TikTok Must Be Used in the Federal Government
On the last Thursday of 2022, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, singed into law a budget bill spanning more than 1,600 pages, including a prohibition of the use of TikTok on federal government-issued devices.
The prohibition, titled “No TikTok on Government Devices Act”, will affect more than 4 million U.S. government employees but excludes those who use ...