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“Data Provenance”: Navigating Ownership, Authenticity, and Rights in the Digital Age
This week, let’s examine “Data Provenance,” a concept that involves tracing the lineage of data — its origins, transformations, and ownership. We’ll also propose a new specialized application for “Data Provenance:” regulating the privacy of personal data.
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).
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.
Clearview AI is “Persona non Grata”
This week, the Italian Supervisory Authority (ISA) – a regulatory body responsible for enforcing GDPR and related privacy concerns in Italy – fined Clearview AI € 20 million for GDPR violations stemming from Clearview’s data collection and processing in Italy. Let’s consider the opinion and some lessons learned.
Europe to Meta/Facebook: “You want to leave? Fine. Leave.”
This week, let’s consider a cross-border data transfer controversy under the GDPR and how Meta/Facebook is “absolutely not threatening to leave Europe.”
Privacy and the First Amendment
This week, let’s consider the looming conflict between privacy and the First Amendment as Clearview AI — a controversial start-up that sells a facial recognition technology built on photos scraped from the internet — reportedly prepares a First Amendment defense.
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.