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India: New Digital Personal Data Protection Act, Start Planning Now.

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Authors: Carolyn Bigg, Gwyneth To and Rachel De Souza Start preparing now to comply with India’s new data protection law. The DPDP Act is India’s first comprehensive law on the protection of personal data and comes six years after the Supreme Court of India first declared a fundamental right to privacy in the Puttaswarmy case in 2017.

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The ICO admits that its cookie policy violates the GDPR

IT Governance

The UK’s data protection watchdog has admitted that its website’s cookie policy breaches the requirements of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) made the statement following complaints that it was storing visitors’ personal data without their consent.

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California Enacts Broad Privacy Laws Modeled on GDPR

Data Matters

According to the bill’s author, it was consciously designed to emulate the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that went into effect on May 25, and if and when it goes into effect, it would constitute the broadest privacy law in the United States. geolocation data. AB 375 will go into effect on Jan.

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Law firm Slater and Gordon fined £80,000 for Quindell client information disclosure

IT Governance

of the SRA Code of Conduct 2011. Worse fines if the GDPR had been in effect. Although these fines are merely the latest items on an ongoing list of bad news for the company, Slater and Gordon is at least fortunate that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) was not in effect at the time.

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California Enacts Broad Privacy Protections Modeled on GDPR

Data Matters

According to the bill’s author, it was consciously designed to emulate the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that went into effect on May 25, and if and when it goes into effect, it would constitute the broadest privacy law in the United States. geolocation data. AB 375 will go into effect on Jan.

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FTC to levy unprecedented $US5bn fine against Facebook

Data Protection Report

The FTC’s investigation leading to this settlement dates back to 2011, when Facebook promised the FTC in a consent decree that it would not share user data with third parties without the express consent of the user. It is suspected that the FTC believed this information was improperly obtained and violated the 2011 consent decree.

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Weekly podcast: Dixons Carphone, Fashion Nexus, Yale and Alaska

IT Governance

This week, we discuss the 10 million affected by Dixons Carphone’s 2017 data breach, the exposure of hundreds of thousands of clothes shoppers’ details, Yale University’s ten-year old data breach, and a return to typewriters for government workers in Matanuska-Susitna Borough in Anchorage. million.