On July 31, 2023, the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) – the state privacy regulatory agency charged with regulating and enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act) (“CCPA”) — announced that it will be reviewing the data privacy practices of connected vehicle (CV) manufacturers and related CV technologies.
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China Releases Draft Measures for Data Security Management
*written with assistance from co-author and W&L law student, Isabella Gray.
On May 28, 2019, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“Cybersecurity Administration”) released a set of draft Measures for Data Security Management (the “Draft Measures”). The Draft Measures provide articles governing how network operators, defined as someone who owns and administrates a network or a…
German Court Rules Facebook’s Use of Personal Data Is Illegal
A Berlin regional court recently ruled that Facebook’s use of personal data was illegal because the social media platform did not adequately secure the informed consent of its users. A German consumer rights group, the Federal of German Consumer Organisations (vzvb) said that Facebook’s default settings and some of its terms of service were in…