On May 8, 2026, California Attorney General Rob Bonta — joined by the District Attorneys of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Napa, and Sonoma Counties, with support from the California Privacy Protection Agency (CalPrivacy) — announced a $12.75 million settlement with General Motors and OnStar (collectively, “GM”) over the alleged unlawful sale of California drivers’ geolocation
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CHINA: DPOs must be registered before 29 August 2025
While appointing and registering a DPO has been mandatory in China for many years, a portal has now finally been established for organisations to register those DPOs with the China data protection authority. This resolves long-standing uncertainty over how DPOs must be registered, and over relevant qualifications and location of the DPO. The deadline for
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FTC Reiterates that Hashed and Pseudonymized Data is Still Identifiable Data
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reiterated its long-held view that hashing or pseudonymizing identifiers does not render data anonymous, in a post to its Technology Blog on July 24, 2024.
In the rather strongly worded post, while acknowledging that hashing and pseudonymizing data has the benefit of obscuring the underlying personal data, the FTC
Continue Reading FTC Reiterates that Hashed and Pseudonymized Data is Still Identifiable DataUS: New Jersey Enacts Comprehensive State Privacy Law
On January 16, 2023, the New Jersey Governor signed into law Senate Bill 332 (the “Act”) making New Jersey the 14th state to adopt a comprehensive state privacy law. The Act will take effect on January 15th, 2025, and requires the Division of Consumer Affairs to issue rules and regulations to effectuate
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Authors: Carolyn Bigg, Amanda Ge, Venus Cheung, Gwyneth To
China’s amended Anti-Espionage Law will take effect from 1 July 2023. However, its effects have already been felt by some international businesses. So what should international businesses do to respond to these new risks?
The new law broadens the scope of espionage activities,
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