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Turkey: Journalistic Investigation Reveals Government Mass Surveillance

An investigative journalism report by the Turkish news website Medyascope revealed that the Information Technologies and Communications Authority of the Turkish Ministry of Transportation (BTK) has been conducting extensive surveillance of citizens’ online activities for the past 18 months. Among the data collected by the BTK, are information about the websites visited, WhatsApp interactions, and location data.

According to Medyascope’s ...

California: New Consumer Privacy Regulations

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) published for public comment draft regulations implementing the reform in the state’s privacy law, given the overhaul of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) expected to take effect in January 2023.

The new regulations mainly focus on adapting the existing regulations (enacted under the CCPA) to the ...

The FTC Warns Companies Against Unlawful Use of Sensitive Data

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission published a blog post stating that it will use the full scope of its legal authorities to protect consumers’ privacy against the over-collection, indefinite data retention, or misuse of their data.

Misuse of sensitive data such as mobile location and health information, might expose consumers to discrimination, stigma, mental anguish, or other serious harms. Such ...

‘Legal Apartheid’ or ‘Necessary Evil’? Israel is Considering Elevated Protection of EU Personal Data

The Israeli Ministry of Justice has begun drafting new data protection regulations that will establish a legal framework whereby personal data originating from the European Union will be subject to a higher level of data protection than any other data collected or processed in Israel.

The Ministry’s motive for this initiative is the European Commission’s ongoing reevaluation of Israel’s 2011 ...

Israeli Consumer Protection Authority Says Platforms Are Liable for Illegal Ads to Minors

According to an opinion by the Israeli Consumer Protection Authority, online platforms whose target audience includes minors and who allow other businesses to advertise on their platform, are responsible to ensure that the content of those ads is not prohibited for minors, regardless of the manner or means of advertisement. The opinion was filed as part of a class action ...

British Cyber Security Center Urges Lawyers to Advise Against Paying Ransomware

In a letter addressed to legal professionals the British National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) explained that although the legal framework in the UK does not outright prohibit paying ransomware, the British government does not endorse or condone it either, and payers and the legal advisers advising them on this matter should be mindful of the possibility that certain sanctions regimes ...

Israeli Supreme Court Dismisses Petitions Against the National Biometric Database

The Israeli High Court of Justice dismissed the petitions filed against the Israeli biometric database law (officially called The Inclusion of Biometric Identification Measures and Biometric Identification Data in Identification Documents and a Database Law, 5770-2009). Since 2017, the law requires citizens seeking to issue identification documents (passports and IDs), to provide their facial images (and optionally, thumbprints), to be ...

Israeli Consumers Can Register to the “Do Not Call Me” Registry from November

Israeli consumers will be able to register their phone numbers in the national “do not call me” registry starting November 1, 2022. Starting January 1, 2023, all Israeli companies must not directly contact, for marketing purposes, consumers whose numbers are registered in the database.

According to the new regulations, companies seeking to directly contact consumers with a marketing offer must ...

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