A Dutch court has ruled against Facebook in a suit brought by the advocacy group, Data Privacy Foundation (DPF) and the not-for-profit consumer group, Consumentenbond. They allege the company’s Irish subsidiary processed local user data without consent. Additionally, data was found to have been sold to third parties without consumers’ knowledge.

By unanimous votes in the State House and Senate, Iowa is poised to pass the 6th US state privacy bill, though Consumer Reports and other consumer advocates are urging Iowa’s governor not to sign the Consumer Privacy Act (aka Senate File 262) into law. Concerns are that while the bill seemingly includes key consumer safeguards such as the right to know information companies have collected and the right to have information deleted, the verbiage in the law serves to weaken the protections provided to consumers and strongly favors business.