Privacy Regulation news and trends

Tech Trade Group Pushes National, Not State Data Privacy Laws
Regulation // July 12, 2018

Dean Garfield of the Information Technology Industry Council — a trade group that represents Google, Microsoft and other tech companies — is calling for faster development of national privacy norms to avoid opposing state rules. Garfield’s comments come after California passed one of the strictest laws...

It’s Too Early To Name GDPR Winners, But Google’s Looking Pretty Good
Security & Fraud // May 31, 2018

It’s still early — hardly minute one — in the unfolding history of the General Data Protection Regulation, but a winner is emerging that is both familiar and big: Google. It hardly needs to be explained, but the GDPR is the European Union’s new privacy...

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Twitter Plans to Subpoena Sen. Warren in Legal Battle Against FTC

July 20, 2023
Twitter is reportedly planning to issue to subpoena Sen. Elizabeth Warren in connection with its ongoing legal battle against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The social media platform plans to issue the subpoena as part of a lawsuit in which it is asking the court to scrap a consent order with the FTC regarding data breaches, Reuters reported Thursday (July 20), citing […]

Tech Trade Group Pushes National, Not State Data Privacy Laws

July 12, 2018
Dean Garfield of the Information Technology Industry Council — a trade group that represents Google, Microsoft and other tech companies — is calling for faster development of national privacy norms to...