A diagnostic medical imaging company from Tennessee has settled an investigated by the FBI and the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, which enforces the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The company was investigated for a breach in its servers that enabled unauthorized access to sensitive health information, ...
The European Parliament voiced its support of a proposed regulation imposing a fine of up to 4% of an online service provider’s turnover if it does not remove terrorism-inciting content within one-hour of notification by authorities.
The proposed regulation also requires Internet service providers to take proactive measures to protect their services against the dissemination of terroristic content. The measures ...
In a landmark decision, Australia’s national workplace relations tribunal - the Fair Work Commission – has ruled that employers may not force workers to use biometric time clocks in the workplace, and that any dismissal based on a worker’s refusal to submit their fingerprints is unlawful.
The Fair Work Commission's holding overruled an earlier decision, according to which an employer’s ...
The long awaited and controversial Israeli Credit Data Law, 5776-2016 has come into force on April 12, establishing an overall framework for collecting credit data into a Central Credit Register, operated by the Bank of Israel (Israel’s central bank), and providing it from there onward to Credit Bureaus that engage in credit rating assessments.
The new law requires institutions such ...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published a framework for analyzing whether digital assets are “investment contracts” securities. The framework is said to present the views of its authors and is not officially recognized by the commission. However, it is meant to provide guidance on this topic.
The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decisions in Howey from the 1940s ...
Performance of an Online Services Contract as a Legal Basis for Data Processing. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published draft guidelines on processing personal data in the context of online services, under the legal basis of performance of an online service contract. Processing under the GDPR is permissible only if it is performed under a recognized legal basis. ...
The European parliament has approved changes to the EU consumer protection rules, which govern online marketplaces and comparison services, such as eBay, Amazon, Skyscanner and Airbnb.
According to the new rules, enacted as a European Union Directive, marketplaces and comparison services will have to disclose the key parameters that determine how listings resulting from search queries are ranked. Marketplaces and ...
The European Union's Parliament has approved its controversial copyright legislation, known as the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market 2016/0280, which introduces precedential copyright arrangements.
The legislation’s objective is to ensure that the copyright rights and obligations also apply online, while striving to ensure that the Internet remains an environment for freedom of expression. One of the directive’s ...
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