What’s the state of GDPR enforcement? CMS Law, a global firm with seventy offices in 40 countries, offers an at-a-glance GDPR Enforcement tracker that includes country, decision date, fine, and the controller overseeing the case.
Indiana, Utah and Maryland lead the list of states actively pushing for new privacy legislation. Indiana’s bill, similar to the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, moves from State Senate to the House; Utah’s amended bill allowing private right of action against social media companies passes the State House; and in Maryland, three new bills were filed addressing biometrics, children’s data and health data. More bills are taking shape across the country from Washington, DC to Hawaii.
A research study by travel tech company, Amadeus surveyed more than 10,000 travelers to find out their greatest hopes and biggest concerns about travel in the next decade. What they found was: 1) 34% expect travel to be quite different, 2) 44% believe cybercrime will increase, and 3) 41% consider future data privacy a major concern.
A U.S. district court judge has ruled that Google acted to create illegal monopolies in online advertising technology in a way that blocked competition and allowed higher ad prices to be charged. Google will appeal; meantime, the government will decide what to ask the court to do to remedy the monopoly. Google also faces a new U.K. antitrust lawsuit over its dominance of search.