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In the past year, Meta banned at least seven companies engaged in “surveillance-for-hire activities” from Facebook, CyberScoop reports. Meta Head of Security Policy Nathaniel Gleicher said democracies of the world need to craft legislation to criminalize companies for making commercial surveillance software.

The Washington Post reports U.S. Congress remains at odds on the path to passing children's privacy bills before year's end. U.S. senators are pushing the proposed Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act of 2021 and the Kids Online Safety Act during the December lame-duck session, while members of the U.S. House aren't yet sold on passage. U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., called CTOPPA provisions "common-sense and critical protections," but Rep.

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate internet infrastructure company Neustar Security Services' sale of data to the federal government, The Washington Post reports. Wyden wants the FTC to review whether the company should have warned consumers it was selling information on where they went online.

The Republic of Slovenia’s National Assembly, the Drzavni Zbor, voted 50-8 to adopt the Personal Data Protection Act. The legislation “transposes” the EU General Data Protection Regulation into Slovenian, as the country met all the requirements to fully implement the GDPR.