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On November 12, 2020, Vodafone, the multinational telecommunications company, was fined €12.25 million by Garante, Italy's data protection authority.

As of 2016, Russia requires all technology companies who collect and process the personal data of Russian citizens to store that data on servers located in Russia.

German authorities are investigating the death of a patient following a ransomware attack on a hospital in Germany.

Judge Jeffrey S. White of the U.S. District Court of Northern California granted a preliminary injunction filed by several associations that had challenged the validity of...

COVID-19 continues to affect applicants for Georgia Medicaid. Based on the Public Health Emergency ("PHE") declaration in March 2020, the Division of Family and Children Services ("DFCS")...

On December 10, 2020, the Trump administration announced proposed changes to the HIPAA privacy rule. According to the announcement, the changes are intended to "support individuals' engagement

Businesses subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") can breathe a small sigh of relief.

On October 1, 2020, the Data Protection Authority of Hamburg ("DPA"), announced a fine of €35.3 million ($41.3 million) against multinational retail company H&M.

Last December, we discussed India's proposed Personal Data Protection Bill and the implications of its data localization requirement. It appears Turkey has now promulgated a similar requirement.

Recently three plaintiffs filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that Amazon violated Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act ("BIPA"), by collecting and storing "voiceprints" without the users'...

In this episode of PrivacyCafé, Richard Sheinis and Jade Davis discuss France's new data privacy law permitting AI video surveillance for the Paris Olympics and its implications.

On January 5, 2021, the Council of the European Union released a new draft version of the ePrivacy Regulation. The draft regulation is intended to replace the current ePrivacy Directive

A lawsuit has been filed with a court in the Netherlands challenging Uber's alleged practice of using automated systems to identify fraudulent activity and terminate drivers based on that process, also known as "Robo-Firing".

Each year, the State Department uses a lottery system to select visa recipients from a broad array of countries that are underrepresented in the United States.

In August 2020, the Irish Data Protection Commission (the "DPC") issued a preliminary order to Facebook requiring Facebook to suspend data transfers to the U.S. that involve personal data...

As we move toward the end of 2024, it seems the time is right for an update of AI statutory developments so far this year. While the EU has once again set the standard with the EU AI Act...

Apple Intelligence was launched on Monday, October 28, and is available on any iPhone 16 and iPhone 15 Pro that is updated to iOS 18.1. It is also available on certain models of iPads and Macs.