The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) on Tuesday welcomed a ruling that it had the power to fine TikTok 12.7 million pounds ($17.2 million) for U.K. General Data Protection Regulation breaches.
Responding to a suit against New York over a state law requiring that retailers disclose when they are using algorithmic pricing, privacy lawyer Heidi Saas argued that the First Amendment does not protect surveillance pricing.
Recent enforcement against Honda and Healthline in California and FTC action against data brokers show that companies must understand data flow and consent, an executive with the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) said in an interview Monday.
TikTok on Thursday appealed a New York Supreme Court judge's May ruling that allowed a suit from the Attorney General's office against the social media platform to continue (see 2505280056). TikTok appealed to the Appellate Division of New York's Supreme Court, arguing the judge erred when it ruled the state's claims were not barred by the First Amendment and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
President Donald Trump will extend ByteDance’s TikTok divestment deadline for a third time, the White House said in a statement Tuesday evening.
Tanvi Mehta Krensel joins Squire Patton as a partner in its Data Privacy, Cybersecurity and Digital Assets Practice Group, in Sydney, the law firm announced Monday. She formerly was TikTok's product privacy lead for the Asia Pacific and emerging markets.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford sued YouTube and its corporate parents, Google and Alphabet, on Monday over allegations that the companies knowingly created an addictive and harmful platform that targets the youth.
DOJ should enforce the law and block TikTok in the U.S. if ByteDance isn’t willing to divest from the Chinese social media app, several Republican senators told us in interviews Thursday, citing data-related national security concerns.
A Belgian Market Court decision last month has implications for companies that collect consent from data subjects for tracking, cookies and other online advertising tools using Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe's transparency and consent framework (TCF), Hogan Lovells privacy attorney Etienne Drouard said in an interview.
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against TikTok's request that a case alleging the social media platform violated the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act be dismissed. A state circuit court had previously denied a motion to dismiss the case, which TikTok appealed to the Arkansas Supreme Court, asking to halt the case.