In another helpful overview, conducted by sampling nearly 400,000 Internet users age 16-64, GlobalWebIndex and Datum Future provide a global index of consumer sentiment about personal data use. Brazil, Mexico, Columbia, Spain, Portugal, and Malaysia topped the list for greatest concern; Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, and South Korea expressed the least.
In two cases that litigants in the UK and the Netherlands believe could exceed €10BN in collective claims, the companies are being sued for use of third party cookies for ad tracking. The Dutch case, which was filed by The Privacy Collective, is the biggest in the Netherlands related to violation of GDPR. The UK case, which will be presented later this month, is in connection with GDPR and the UK’s Privacy of Electronic Communications Regulation.
Gibraltar-based virtual private network provider IVPN has published a comparison of data retention, copyright and censorship laws in, the US, UK, Germany, Hong Kong, France, Italy, Canada, Netherlands, Sweden, Iceland, Switzerland, Australia, Romania, and Spain.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.