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The Broad, Vague RESTRICT Act Is a Dangerous Substitute for Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation

https://scheerpost.com/2023/04/05/the-broad-vague-restrict-act-is-a-dangerous-s…
Created
Wed, 05/04/2023 - 20:09

By Jason Kelley and David Greene / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) The recently introduced RESTRICT Act (S. 686, Sen. Warner and Sen. Thune) rightfully is causing a lot of concern. This bill is being called a “TikTok ban,” but it’s more complicated than that. As we wrote in our initial review of the bill, the RESTRICT […]

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The European Union’s Digital Trade Rules: Undermining European Policy to Rein in Big Tech

https://scheerpost.com/2023/03/31/the-european-unions-digital-trade-rules-under…
Created
Fri, 31/03/2023 - 21:09

By Deborah James / Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Executive Summary This report shows how Big Tech companies are working to constrain the ability of EU democratic bodies to regulate their activities in the public interest through “trade” agreements, which are binding and permanent.  Digitalization is the defining economic transformation of our time. […]

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Company at centre of Labour data breach hit by $3m US penalty for ‘misleading’ over ransomware attack

https://skwawkbox.org/2023/03/15/company-at-centre-of-labour-data-breach-hit-by…
Created
Thu, 16/03/2023 - 02:17
SEC accepts US$3m settlement over charges Blackbaud failed to disclose full extent of data loss Blackbaud, the company at the centre of the first of two major Labour party data breaches in consecutive years, has agreed to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) three million US dollars to settle the SEC’s charges that it […]
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