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Privacy advocates split on California’s Prop. 24

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Pandemic discourages regulators from enforcing GDPR. Remember Stasi spying to understand the GDPR. And it would close the loophole that allows businesses to evade paying penalties by remedying violations within 30 days. READ MORE ON PRIVACY LAWS. Pro-privacy biometric laws face long road to change in U.S.

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Pandemic discourages regulators from enforcing GDPR

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Two GDPR fines against international organizations first proposed in 2019 have been delayed since the coronavirus struck. Nevertheless, consumers shouldn’t think that regulators are planning to abandon GDPR in the face of Covid-19, says Annabel Gillham, a London-based privacy expert at law firm Morrison & Foerster.

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Privacy advocates split on California’s Prop. 24

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READ MORE ON PRIVACY LAWS Pandemic discourages regulators from enforcing GDPR Remember Stasi spying to understand the GDPR Pro-privacy biometric laws face long road to change in U.S. And it would close the loophole that allows businesses to evade paying penalties by remedying violations within 30 days.

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How to tell when your government shuts down your Internet access

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Remember Stasi spying to understand the GDPR. But in many cases, consumers can tell whether there has been government interference with Internet access because it will “affect people on different parts of the Internet in different ways,” he added. READ MORE ON GOVERNMENT INTERNET INTERFERENCE.

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Remember Stasi spying to understand the GDPR

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The Stasi would not have approved of that. East Germany’s Ministerium für Staatssicherheit—”Ministry for State Security” in English, “Stasi” for short—employed a network of civilian informers to spy on the communications and even inside the residences of its subjects, to enforce conformity with that communist regime.

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