- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Joe Mont2018-07-23T14:45:00
To consider California’s new Consumer Privacy Act a locally ported version of the EU’s GDPR regime may be understating the full scope of the newly enacted approach to data privacy.
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The City of Los Angeles has filed a lawsuit against the operator of the Weather Channel smartphone app—an IBM subsidiary—for “covertly mining the private data of users and selling the information to third parties.”
Well past the point of omens, it seems that a federal consumer privacy law is imminent. But what should that law be? How should it mimic GDPR requirements and those of states like California? The devil may be uploaded with the details.
OneTrust, a privacy management software provider, has launched a free assessment for companies to use to benchmark their preparedness with the California Consumer Privacy Act.
Facial recognition company Clearview AI reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit alleging it violated the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act, with the company agreeing to compensate victims with stake in the company.
The General Data Protection Regulation has been in force for nearly six years. Some industries—and some companies—have been more prone to fall foul of the rules than others.
Big Tech firms might need to rethink their plans to charge users for not selling their personal data for behavioral advertising following a decision by Europe’s primary data regulator.
