Privacy Plus+ News
Stay informed with our latest insights on privacy and technology trends, along with key updates from our firm.
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.
All the Talk About Chat-GPT
This week, let’s talk about Chat-GPT as Italy’s Data Protection Authority blocks it and Elon Musk and others call for freeze amidst warnings related to privacy and the existential risk posed by too-powerful AI.
Mental Health Data is For Sale
This week, let's consider banning the sale of mental health data in light of a new study published by Duke, and actions by the FTC against BetterHelp (for sharing mental health data with Facebook and others targeted advertisers) and Kochava (for selling sensitive geolocation information).
Section 702, the Supreme Court, the European Parliament, and Congress
This week, we invoke Sherlock Holmes while discussing the latest news regarding Section 702 of the National Security Act, the GDPR and cross-border data transfers.
Managing AI Risk: NIST Framework and ISO Guidance Announced
This week, let’s highlight the new risk management framework and guidance respectively published by NIST and ISO.
Bad Privacy Practices at GoodRx?
This week, let’s look at a new Consent Decree required by FTC and consider its prohibition of disclosure of health information for advertising purposes, along with the FTC’s expanding privacy enforcement and continued rumblings inside the Commission.
“It’s Turtles All the Way Down” - FTC Focuses on AWS Security
This week, let’s look at a recent FTC Consent Order, then consider what lessons can be drawn about using AWS. We’ll also explain how IT infrastructure fits the turtle metaphor featured in the title of this post.
HM in DBA Headnotes Discussing Uber CSO’s Criminal Conviction
Was Uber’s Chief Security Officer a villain or a scapegoat? And how should companies respond to the news of his criminal conviction? HM attorneys discuss in this month’s Headnotes for the Dallas Bar Association.
European Data Protection Authorities Set Sites on Microsoft 365
This week, let’s consider European DPAs published privacy concerns about Microsoft 365, and related risks associated with workforce productivity suites.
Meta’s Search for a (highly profitable) Legal Basis
This week, let’s consider the implications of the EDPB's new decision in the long-running dispute with Meta its behavioral advertising business model.
FTC takes Action Against Drizly and its CEO: Will Protecting Data Become a Priority for CEOs?
The FTC wants to send a very clear message to CEOs: Protecting Americans’ data is not discretionary. It must be a priority. For Drizly’s CEO’s privacy and data security have become an albatross for him to carry to his future businesses under latest FTC proposed consent order.
ICARUS FALLS: SBF, FTX, $FTT, WTH?
This week, we’re offering an explainer on SBF, FTX, $FTT, and what happened with crypto.
The Tao of a Privacy Notice
This week, let’s examine the ideal harmony between privacy notices and privacy practices, and offer some suggestions to organizations that remain tempted to cut-and-paste someone else’s privacy notice or tantalized by offers of $20 privacy notices.
Predicting the Future of Privacy Law into 2023
This week, let’s look ahead toward the State of Privacy in 2023. With the New Year little more than 100 days away, what should we expect?
Free Privacy Training Re: GDPR and More
This week, let’s highlight a free resource that may be helpful to any business subject to the GDPR’s requirements.
Facebook Gave Police Data to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion. What’s next?
This week, let’s confront more Facebook/Meta privacy problems by examining Facebook’s Privacy Policy alongside the recent news that Facebook/Meta gave data to police in Nebraska for the purpose of investigating and prosecuting a teenager for an abortion.
Ain’t Gonna Cut It: The (current) American Data Privacy Protection Act
This week, we highlight the problems with the American Data Privacy Protection Act, a draft bill in Congress that purports to be a comprehensive data privacy bill.
Summer of (the FTC’s) Discontent
This week, let’s look at what’s going on with the Federal Trade Commission, and in particular, a suit against it by the Chamber of Commerce and a new survey showing the erosion of employee morale within that agency. What does it mean? Read more.
Cross-Border Data Transfer Update – New Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework and UK’s International Data Transfer Agreement
This week, let’s consider the “agreement in principle” for the new U.S.-E.U Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework and the UK’s International Data Transfer Agreement.
FTC Announces Latest Data Security Settlement - CafePress
This week, let’s consider the FTC’s data security settlements with both the current and former owners of CafePress, a U.S. clothing and merchandise retail platform.