Following comprehensive investigations, the South Korean privacy regulator, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), has fined Facebook and Netflix for infringing several provisions of the Korean Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA).
The PIPC fined Facebook about US $5.6 million for six violations of the PIPA, the key one being the collection of facial recognition data without the users’ consent. For ...
The Israeli Supreme Court had delivered a precedential judgment holding that courts are authorized to issue a warrant to obtain geolocation data of litigants in civil cases in certain circumstances.
The Supreme Court’s ruling was delivered on a motion by a defendant in a civil lawsuit for sexual assault, who sought a warrant to obtain the mobile device geolocation data ...
China’s National People's Congress enacted a new law, the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), designed to protect individuals’ personal information online. It will be effective as of November 1, 2021, and is expected to add a long list of regulatory compliance requirements to companies operating in China.
The law requires that personal information will only be processed for a clear ...
The Data Protection Authority of the Netherlands has hit TikTok with three-quarters of a million Euro fine for failing to abide by the GDPR’s transparency obligations toward data subject in that TikTok did not provide a privacy statement in Dutch for its younger users.
According to the Dutch regulator, TikTok is a popular app among children in the Netherlands and ...
The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) published its biennial activity report for the years 2019-2020. The report explains that 2020 was a record-breaking year in terms of the scope of PPA’s activity, mainly due to the increase in the number of enforcement proceedings it initiated and the number of guidelines, recommendations, and policy documents it published.
The report indicates that ...
In a comprehensive opinion published in response to a governmental draft bill for amending the Police Ordinance (Special Photographic Systems), 5781-2021, the Israeli Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) disapproved the police’s use of facial recognition technologies.
The PPA stated that not only might permanent and systematic monitoring of individuals’ movement lead to the misuse of sensitive personal information, it might also ...
China’s Supreme People’s Court, the top judicial authority in China, published guidelines addressing the application of laws on the use of facial recognition technology when handling civil cases. The document provides guidance for courts on how to apply the various rules in the Civil Code, Cybersecurity Law, Consumer Rights Protection Law, E-Commerce Law, and other relevant legislative instruments.
The Supreme Court clarified that ...
The Attorney General of California (CAG), tasked with the exclusive power to enforce the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), has published a rundown of its enforcement effort in the past year, to raise awareness of the importance of compliance with the CCPA.
Although the CAG does not usually release information about its investigations, it recently provided a list of illustrative ...
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