Slovenia, the last EU country to formally adopt GDPR, has put its Personal Data Privacy Protection Act (ZVOP-2) into effect. The law includes rules for transmission of personal data, video surveillance, regulation of biometrics and personal data collection, and legal basis for imposing sanctions under GDPR.
While the US still doesn’t have a federal data privacy law, it does have the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPN) – a video rental-era holdover of a law that disallows sharing video viewership data without consent. Chick-Fil-A, which has been using a Meta pixel tracker for an ongoing series of Christmas videos, is facing a class action similar to VPPA lawsuits brought against nearly 50 other organizations, including the NBA, GameStop, CNN and BuzzFeed.
In the latest Whack-a-Mole privacy exposure reveal at Twitter, a former-employee whistleblower has told the US Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission and members of Congress that as many as 4,000 Twitter engineers could have accessed user data, including after Musk’s takeover via a function nicknamed “GodMode.” Twitter, again having recently gutted its compliance and communications teams, had no comment.
Salesforce has reversed course on its bid to acquire data management and integration platform Informatica a source has told Reuters. Informatica itself said that it is not in talks to be acquired. Salesforce stocks rose on this latest news while Informatica’s fell.