All the headlines from our Data Privacy Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 16 2018 // Mississippi’s Supreme Court says a state lawsuit against Google alleging violations of student privacy should stay in a northeast Mississippi court.The court voted 6-2 Aug. 9 to deny an appeal by the unit of...
Aug 6 2018 // California recently enacted a sweeping new privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, which is likely to have broad implications for organizations providing services to, or collecting data from, California...
Aug 3 2018 // Genetic-testing companies that have decoded the DNA of millions just introduced new guidelines to protect data privacy.But those best practices failed to address a major concern: what happens to customers’ data that...
Jul 31 2018 // A draft of a sweeping data privacy bill has been submitted to India’s government that, if enacted, will restrict the transfer and storage of information on more than 1 billion people by global technology corporations...
Jul 27 2018 // California recently enacted a sweeping new privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, which is likely to have broad implications for organizations providing services to, or collecting data from, California...
Jul 11 2018 // Facebook Inc. could be fined a symbolic 500,000 pounds ($664,000) by the U.K.’s privacy regulator after the social network giant failed to prevent key user data falling into the hands of a political consultancy that...
Jul 10 2018 // Litigation funder IMF Bentham Ltd is preparing to potentially sue social media giant Facebook Inc in Australia over its sharing of users’ data with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.The world’s largest...
Jul 5 2018 // Some of the world’s largest technology companies might be breaking the European Union’s new data privacy law, according to an analysis of their policies conducted by artificial intelligence software.Researchers...
Jul 3 2018 // California is on track to have what will be the nation’s most far-reaching law to give consumers more control over their personal data.The new law may be both a big concern, as well as a new and important...
Jul 2 2018 // California will soon have what experts call the nation’s most far-reaching law to give consumers more control over their personal data under a bill the governor has signed.The law will compel companies to tell...
May 25 2018 // From tech giant Facebook Inc. to libraries and schools, organizations are now subject to the world’s most far-reaching data privacy regulation in a crackdown aimed at protecting people from losing control over their...
May 24 2018 // Microsoft promised this week to give users worldwide the same data and privacy rights Europeans will get under new regulations there. That’s in contrast to some of its tech rivals, who are hedging on how much privacy...
May 24 2018 // Complying with the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation is leading insurers and reinsurers to dilute the types of data they gather—something that could diminish underwriting quality, A.M. Best...
May 23 2018 // Lisa Meyer’s London hair salon is a cozy place where her mother serves homemade macaroons, children climb on chairs and customers chat above the whirr of hairdryers.Most of the time Meyer is focused on hairstyles,...
May 22 2018 // Regulators are beginning to teach robots who’s the boss.After spending billions of dollars on cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies, Europe’s banks and insurers face tougher scrutiny of the tools...
May 22 2018 // Data privacy rules coming into force this week are giving Europe’s fledgling cyber insurance market a boost as they make companies more aware of the risks caused by customer information breaches.Europe’s...
May 21 2018 // A retail store’s ability to authenticate customers by scanning their unique ear or retinal patterns may seem like something out of a sci-fi movie, but this type of identification technology isn’t...
May 9 2018 // FRANKFURT/BRUSSELS/PARIS— Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been billed as the biggest shake-up of data privacy laws since the birth of the web.There’s one problem: many of the regulators...
May 2 2018 // Ireland’s High Court has refused a request by Facebook to delay referral to Europe’s top court of a landmark privacy case that could strike down legal instruments used by U.S. tech companies to transfer EU...
May 1 2018 // Facebook bid on Monday to block referral of a landmark privacy case to Europe’s top court by requesting a last-ditch appeal, seeking to avoid a potential ban on the legal instrument it uses to transfer users’...