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Recent decisions by the French data protection authority (CNIL) have highlighted the importance of GDPR compliance, particularly in the areas of data retention, consent for processing sensitive personal data, and marketing practices. On October, 10, 2024, CNIL fined two companies offering remote clairvoyance services a total of €400,000—€250,000 for Cosmospace and €150,000 for Telemaque—for breaches including excessive data retention, failure to obtain explicit consent for sensitive data processing, and non-compliance with marketing consent rules. These decisions serve as a reminder for businesses to evaluate their data protection policies to avoid costly penalties and maintain consumer trust.

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The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) has released the agenda for its upcoming public board meeting on October 4, 2024. This meeting is set to cover important regulatory and enforcement matters related to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).

Here’s a breakdown of the substantive agenda:

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In May 2024 the UK passed the new Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCC). Amongst other changes, the DMCC grants the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) new powers to directly impose fines of up to 10% of a business’s global turnover for consumer protection breaches and to issue notices requiring changes to online interfaces, significantly enhancing the CMA’s enforcement capabilities.

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A new report issued in May 2024 by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), an independent thinktank, is the latest development to cause concerns over the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), predicting that it will likely fail if challenged before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

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(The Consumer Protection Dispatch summarizes industry news and updates on emerging issues involving a variety of consumer protection issues including, but not limited to, data and AI.)

This week’s edition includes latest developments relating to AI laws passed by Colorado, Tennessee and Utah, U.S. Senate bipartisan working group on AI, a new privacy bill from Vermont and a new privacy law from Maryland, a new Colorado law protecting neural data, and updates from the California Privacy Protection Agency.

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