California’s Privateness Act: What you wish to have to grasp now

This week California’s legal professional basic, Xavier Becerra, printed draft steerage for implementing the state’s landmark privateness regulation. The draft textual content of the rules below the California Client Privateness Act (CCPA) will go through a public session length, together with quite a lot of p…
This week California’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, published draft guidance for enforcing the state’s landmark privacy legislation. The draft text of the regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will undergo a public consultation period, including a number of p…

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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Natasha Lomas has recently written 11 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "Remember Do Not Track? The tracker-loving adtech industry hopes you dont recall that decade+ doomed attempt to bake user-friendly privacy controls into browsers". (October 7, 2020)
  2. "The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published guidance for the use of location data and contacts tracing tools intended to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic". (April 22, 2020)
  3. "The FTC has reached a settlement with Flo, a period and fertility tracking app with 100 million+ users, over allegations it shared users health data with third-party app analytics and marketing services like Facebook despite promising to keep users sensitive health data private". (January 13, 2021)
  4. "Confusion over an update to Facebook-owned chat platform WhatsApps terms and conditions has triggered an intervention by Italys data protection agency". (January 14, 2021)
  5. "A group of European privacy experts has proposed a decentralized system for Bluetooth-based COVID-19 contacts tracing which they argue offers greater protection against abuse and misuse of peoples data than apps which pull data into centralized pots". (April 6, 2020)
  6. "As TC readers know, the tricky trade-off of the modern web is privacy for convenience. Online tracking is how this great intimacy robbery is pulled off". (December 8, 2020)
  7. "European data watchdogs have issued updated guidance in the wake of last weeks landmark ruling striking down a flagship transatlantic data transfer mechanism called Privacy Shield". (July 24, 2020)
  8. "A unique device identifier that Apple assigns to each iPhone for third parties to track users for ad targeting aka the IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) is itself now the target of two new complaints filed by European privacy campaign not-for-profit, noyb". (November 16, 2020)
  9. "Mozilla has further beefed up anti-tracking measures in its Firefox browser". (February 24, 2021)
  10. "As the saying goes, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". (August 11, 2020)
  11. "One of the first national coronavirus contacts tracing apps to be launched in Europe is being suspended in Norway after the countrys data protection authority raised concerns that the software, called Smittestopp, poses a disproportionate threat to user privacy includin". (June 15, 2020)
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