Date Topic Info Typesort ascending Description
06/26/2017 EC's proposed E-Privacy revamp gets mixed reviews from lawmakers, stakeholders News

Link to article: http://www6.lexisnexi

06/13/2018 Vietnam passes cybersecurity law despite privacy concerns News

Link to article: 

03/25/2019 FTC announce agenda for April 9-10 Hearing #12: The FTC’s Approach to Consumer Privacy News

Press release: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/03/ftc-annou

04/27/2021 Venable Summary of House Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce: The Consumer Protection and Recovery Act News

Venable summary of House Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce hearing: The Consumer Protection and Recovery Act: Returning Money to Defrauded Consumers. Summary attached.

08/05/2015 Markey, Senate Democrates call for "Do Not Disturb" technology to block telemarketing and unwanted robocalls News

Today, Senator Markey (D-Mass.) and seven Senate Democrats urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to help consumers block unwanted telemarketing calls on both landline and wireless phones.  In a letter sent today to the FCC, the Senator

03/14/2016 Time, Mansueto Ventures sued for alleged data-selling practices (Part 1) News

Two suites brought in Michigan for alleged violations of state privacy regulations. 

Copies of the suits attached to separate posts.

10/27/2016 FCC adopts new broadband provider privacy rules News

Link to press release: http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db1027/DOC-341937A1.pdf

05/05/2017 "Right-to-Know" data-selling bill passes Illinois Senate News

Legislation that would require websites and apps to notify Illinois consumers about what data the companies may collect and to whom they sell the data barely cleared the Illinois Senate on Thursday, creating doubt for its chances of success in the

01/22/2018 China releases new guidelines on protection standards for cloud services, Big Data platforms, other networks News

This document is not yet available in English. A machine-translated version is attached.

10/10/2018 Written statements and video of 10/10 Senate Commerce Committee Hearing on consumer privacy News

Link to site with written statements and video of Senate Commerce Committee hearing: Consumer Data Privacy: Examining Lessons Learned from the European Union's GDPR and CA's CCPA

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