FTC Backs Federal Privacy Law As Long As It Can Enforce It
The FTC told Congress last week that if a national privacy law gets passed, it wants more resources and greater authority to impose penalties under it.
The FTC told Congress last week that if a national privacy law gets passed, it wants more resources and greater authority to impose penalties under it.
Lawmakers discussed the impact of California Consumer Privacy Act in a Senate Judiciary hearing on Tuesday.
A new survey says GDPR compliant companies are benefiting from their recent privacy investments - as a bonus, they may be less likely to be breached, too.
The French data protection authority said Monday that it has fined Google roughly $57M - the biggest penalty yet under the new law - for failing to acknowledge how its users' data is processed.
Senate Democrats have introduced an act that would require companies to protect consumer data, inform users of breaches, and be held to duties of care, loyalty, and confidentiality.
Consumer groups in Europe argue Google doesn't have a valid legal basis for processing users’ location data and is processing personal information that violates the EU's General Data Protection Regulation.
Japan asked Facebook on Monday to better safeguard its users data following several breaches - one of 29 million users, another of 87 million users - this year.
Following a Wall Street Journal article, Google said this week that it would shut down its social network, Google+, after discovering a bug in its API that exposed user data.
California passed a sweeping data privacy bill on Thursday believed to be the strictest in the nation. The law will give consumers the ability to ask what data companies have on them and to sue over data breaches.