The Digital Services Act (DSA) is a major new EU law with the potential to be as influential globally as the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It aims to end the current era of weak self-regulation, and to force companies to actively tackle some of the internet’s more harmful aspects. It includes rules to ensure … Continue reading “What Does the EU’s Far-Reaching New Digital Services Act Mean for Privacy Worldwide?”
There’s a new US bill that everyone in the privacy world should know about — it goes by the name of “Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act of 2022” or the “SMART Copyright Act of 2022” for short. Although the bill is mostly geared toward tackling copyright infringement, the way it does so … Continue reading “How New Copyright Laws Threaten Privacy and Freedom of Speech”
For many Westerners, China is a country associated with widespread surveillance, stringent censorship, and human rights abuses in regions such as Hong Kong and Xinjiang. Despite that, the Chinese government is well aware that the country’s billion Internet users care deeply about personal privacy, and has been steadily introducing surprisingly strong data protection laws to … Continue reading “Shenzhen, the Silicon Valley of Hardware, Sets a Global Standard with China’s Toughest Local Privacy Law”
As this blog has frequently noted, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) plays a crucial role in the privacy world. It not only creates protections for privacy online in the EU, it also provides a role model for other countries looking to implement privacy laws of their own. It shows that this complex area … Continue reading “Canada unveils its new privacy legislation – with even bigger fines than the GDPR”
Here on Privacy News Online we’ve written a number of stories about the privacy implications of DNA. There’s an important case going through the Californian courts at the moment that involves DNA and privacy, but whose ramifications go far beyond those issues: “In this case, a defendant was linked to a series of rapes by … Continue reading “Opening the black boxes: algorithmic bias and the need for accountability”