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Stay informed with our latest insights on privacy and technology trends, along with key updates from our firm.
America's Authoritarian Turn: From Texas Cameras to Federal Databases
This week, let’s scrutinize how government surveillance systems designed for legitimate purposes are being weaponized by zealous officials and private contractors to track citizens across state lines and build comprehensive databases, threatening the constitutional foundations of American liberty.
Texas Court of Appeals Dismisses Privacy Lawsuit Against Google: Implications for Corporate Jurisdiction
This week, let’s look at a new decision raising questions about tech accountability, where a Texas appellate court ruled it lacks jurisdiction over Google s despite the company's massive local presence.
Meta's $1.4 Billion Texas Biometric Settlement
This week, let’s highlight Texas’s recent $1.4 Billion settlement with Meta stemming from its 2022 lawsuit accusing the “Artificial Intelligence empire” of building itself on the “backs of Texans” by violating the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act (CUBI).
“Public Insecurity:” The Special Vulnerability of Public Facilities
This week, let’s focus on the ransomware attacks on state and local governments and consider some risk-reducing cybersecurity measures.
Understanding the New Data Broker Registration Laws
This week, let’s delve into the new data broker registration laws, and focus on the laws in California and Texas.
The Rise of UOOMs
This week, let’s focus on Universal Opt-Out Mechanisms (UOOMs), like the Global Privacy Control and highlight several related state privacy laws (California, Colorado, and Connecticut).
Trans-Atlantic Perspectives: How the U.S. and UK Are Tackling Online Content Regulation
This week, let’s look at the UK’s new Online Safety Bill and contrast it from the arguments over the First Amendment in the Netchoice cases now before the Supreme Court.
Texas Data Privacy and Security Act
The Texas Data and Privacy Security Act is the latest comprehensive state privacy bill to be signed into law. Here, we’re summarizing it.
The State-by-State of Data Privacy Laws
This week, let’s consider the worldwide privacy landscape and the consequences of having a kaleidoscope of varying state privacy regulations.
Fifth Circuit Weighs in on Privacy in Texas
This week, let’s consider “the importance of personal privacy to Texas’s legal framework” as expressly recognized by the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in its recent per curium opinion, Amin v. UPS.
Biometrics in 2022: Employees, the FTC, Dashcams, Time-Keeping Software, etc.
This week, let’s look at lessons drawn from recent actions by the plaintiffs’ bar and the FTC -- all of which are focused on the use of biometrics, and restrictions under laws like the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).
Texas Consumer Privacy Act Phase I
This week, let’s take a look at the Texas Consumer Privacy Act Phase I, restricting the ability of Texas state agencies to sell DMV, DPS and other personal information except for very limited purposes.
Texas is Making Millions/Year Selling Personal Information
This week, let’s consider the latest news in Texas—that our state government is making millions every year selling drivers’ personal information.
Go Ahead and Mess with Texas -- The AG Won’t Mind?
This week, let’s consider enforcement of biometric data laws in the United States.
Trend Toward “Plain English” for Contracts and Statutes
This week, let’s consider recent Texas and United States Supreme Court case law, and highlight a trend toward “plain English” judicial construction of contracts and of statutes.
Is the Tide Turning Against Facial Recognition?
This week, we consider the implications of Facebook’s reported $550 million settlement of a class action lawsuit related to the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
Texas Privacy and Data Security Laws
This week, we compile various Texas statutes that directly address privacy and data security.
Ransomware: We Wish Some Things Weren't Bigger in Texas
This week, we imagine the creation of a national coordinator for cyber-security readiness and response in the wake of a coordinated ransomware attack on 20 local cities and agencies in Texas.
Come and take it – Texas Privacy edition
This week, we highlight a DMN opinion column about how the Texas Consumer Privacy Act died, who killed it, and what it means for web privacy.