PRG News Roundup, March 6, 2024
News The House of Representatives will be performing a Full Committee markup of H.R. 7521, the Protecting Americans' Data from Foreign Adversaries Act on March 7, 2024. This is a response to…
Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
News The House of Representatives will be performing a Full Committee markup of H.R. 7521, the Protecting Americans' Data from Foreign Adversaries Act on March 7, 2024. This is a response to…
NewsOn February 20, 2024, Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford filed a motion to prevent Meta from providing end-to-end encryption on Messenger for users residing in the state who are under…
News The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced changes to the current research data request and access policies in the name of data security that will limit individual…
News Google agreed to a $350 million settlement over a lawsuit related to a security lapse that exposed Google Plus users’ data, amidst other legal challenges for privacy and competition…
News Child access and privacy work are at the forefront of issues being addressed politically. On Wednesday, January 31, five CEOs from major tech companies, including Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg…
News The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) proposed the Personal Financial Data Rights rule to give people a legal right to give third parties access to their data related to…
News The Biden-Harris Administration issued a landmark executive order entitled “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI.” The order aims to standardize federal procurement of AI, and to lay out the groundwork for establishing new…
News California governor Gavin Newsom signed the Delete Act, which requires data brokers to register with the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) and charges the CPPA with developing a one-stop-shop deletion…
News In September 25, it was reported that a Chinese programmer had been administratively punished for more than 1 million RMB (approximately 145000 USD) due to his illegal use of…
News The Canadian Federal Court of Appeal has confirmed that Canadian citizens have the "right to be forgotten" online. In a 2017 case, a man complained that Google violated Canada's…