Privacy Plus+ News
Stay informed with our latest insights on privacy and technology trends, along with key updates from our firm.
FTC, Facebook, and Future Consequences for Privacy Violations
This week, we consider the FTC’s settlement with Facebook and its (potentially) profound consequences for privacy violations.
First, Second and Third-Order Inferences
This week, we take on a privacy law hypothetical about how late-order inferences may be drawn and used to predict what you will like, will support or oppose, will vote for or against, will buy or turn away.
Is It Time to Regulate Scrubbed Data?
This week, we consider de-identification of data as a mechanism for mitigating privacy risk, and ask this question: Is it time to regulate scrubbed data too?
Things to Consider when Thinking about Data Privacy Rights
This week, we continue our shift from current events to focus on data privacy rights, and in particular, the rights of access and deletion of personal information, and in doing so, consider the broader themes underlying privacy.
What You Should Know about the Data Supply Chain
This week, we turn from current events to focus on the data supply chain, where personal information is transferred from citizen consumers to companies far-far away.
Why You Should Care about Privacy
This week, we challenge privacy pacifists who say, “I have nothing to hide, so I have nothing to fear” with our counterargument, along with two recent articles about surveillance that everyone should read.
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.
Disclosing the Use of Tools such as AI on Personal Data
This week, we recognize the growing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the employee hiring process.
Make Privacy Nice. Like the Canadians
This week, we are aiming to make privacy nice, like the Canadians – “I don’t want you to give me full disclosure about how you’re going to scr-w me, and then ask for my consent. Just don’t scr-w me.”
It’s Time to Freeze Facial Recognition
This week, we call on Congress to temporarily halt use of facial recognition systems, including biometrics.
Facial Recognition Banned in San Francisco
This week, San Francisco became the first US city to ban the use of facial-recognition technology by police and local government agencies.
Privacy meets Antitrust
This week saw privacy collide with antitrust, as Facebook’s co-founder, Chris Hughes, wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times calling for Facebook to be broken up.
What happened at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington DC
This week in privacy and technology revolved around the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington DC. Here are the highlights —
Press Coverage of the Firm’s Launch
Since our launch on April 17th, Hosch & Morris, PLLC has received some positive press.