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Stay informed with our latest insights on privacy and technology trends, along with key updates from our firm.
Hardening the Industrial Internet of Things
This week, we consider privacy and security broadly across the consumer and industrial Internet of Things, and offer some suggestions about hardening your organization’s privacy and security posture.
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.
FCC Greenlights A New 5G Service Despite Pentagon’s Red Flags
This week, while the nation’s attention is focused on the pandemic, we question why the FCC is bucking warnings from the Department of Defense and others, and moving to approve a plan for a controversial 5G network.
Clear Views about Clearview AI
This week, we highlight lawsuits brought against facial recognition technology provider Clearview AI, and offer some suggestions about the procurement of privacy-invasive technologies.
Gloom, Doom, and Zoom: Privacy, Security, and Hindsight
This week, we pick up on our previous post regarding the privacy and security risks associated with videoconferencing, and in particular, Zoom, and propose some solutions.
Your Organization’s Videoconference Software May Present A Privacy Problem
This week, we consider the privacy and security issues associated with videoconferencing technologies, and provide some suggestions for organizations that utilize these technologies.
Today’s Health Crisis, Tomorrow’s Privacy Lessons
This week, we consider the benefits of preventing or controlling the spread of the COVID-19 virus against the cost to personal privacy, and ultimate threat to individual freedom.
Privacy During the Pandemic
This week, we consider individual privacy against public health as we begin to weather the rapid developments associated with the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Airline Faces Max Fine After Self-reporting a Data Breach
This week, we consider ICO’s issuance of a £500,000 penalty against Cathay Pacific for a data breach that was self-reported in 2018.
Privacy Law—Nevada and Maine Edition
This week, we highlight Nevada and Maine’s privacy laws.
EU Watchdog Warns of Privacy Problems with Google-Fitbit Deal; But What About Data-opoly?
This week, we consider privacy problems and “data-opolies” in connection with Google’s plan to acquire Fitbit.
Raided, Traded, Weaponized and Commoditized – Your location data
This week, we consider how the commercial exploitation of your location data may be resulting in “near perfect surveillance,” as if your phone was an ankle monitor.
What the Iowa Caucuses Can Teach Us about App Development
This week, we consider what the Iowa Caucuses can teach us about app development.
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.
Unregulated – Grindr, Tinder and Ad Tech
This week, we consider AdTech industry, and a new report on Grindr, Tinder and other apps, which shows how that industry may violate data privacy laws in Europe and the United States, and also discuss how fiduciary duties under the proposed New York Privacy Act would fall short with respect to regulating AdTech.
Privacy Before Profits - Is it Time for Data Fiduciaries?
This week, we consider the idea of data fiduciaries introduced in the proposed New York Privacy Act.
A New Year - The True Value of Privacy
This week, we begin a new year by considering “data dignity” against the true value of privacy.
The Standard Contractual Clauses Find Safe Harbor
This week, we consider EU-US data transfers, and a recent opinion upholding the validity of the Standard Contractual Clauses.
Texas Privacy and Data Security Laws
This week, we compile various Texas statutes that directly address privacy and data security.
NY SHIELD Act: A Breach Notification Statute Reborn with Data Security Requirements
This week, we cover the basics of New York’s Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act (S.5575B/A.5635), set to take effect on March 21, 2020.