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On July 1, new requirements under California's automatic renewal will take effect. As we previously blogged, the amendments will require businesses to make it even easier for consumers to...

Eighty-three percent of Australians have been negatively impacted by a website or app using harmful design features known as dark patterns, according...

U.S and Global news concerning data security and privacy concerns: California Privacy Protection Agency Releases Draft CPRA Regulations, NAI Releases Report to Help Companies Avoid Dark Patterns,OPC Says Context Matters in Deciding What Information is Sensitive, CNIL on AI

Users pointed out Paytm showing a combined balance of wallet and postpaid which attracts interest and affects credit score

The California Privacy Protection Agency released draft regulations to California Privacy Rights Act. Proposed Regulations drafted as comments to California Attorney General regulations for California Consumer Privacy Act, California’s landmark privacy law, amended by CPRA.

Keypoint: The California Privacy Protection Agency issued a first set of draft regulations that contain a number of notable provisions but do not address all of the CPRA’s rulemaking...

FTC took two well-publicized steps in children’s privacy space. First, it penalized WW International Weight Watchers and its subsidiary, Kurbo, for alleged COPPA violations, adopted a new policy statement on education technology and Children's Online Privacy Protection Act

The Karen Spärck Jones lecture this year featured inspiring talks from three esteemed women computer scientists: Dr Karen Renaud, Dr Kelly Widdicks and Prof Lynn Kaack.

United States targeting dark patterns as part of both their privacy and traditional consumer protection remits, European Data Protection Board EDPB proposed Guidelines assessing and avoiding dark pattern practices that violate the EU General Data Protection Directive GDPR

Connecticut General Assembly passed SB 6, An Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring, under SB 6, the terms controller, processor, and personal data have similar definitions as under the CPA, CDPA, and UCPA, Act will go into effect on July 1, 2023.