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Stay informed with our latest insights on privacy and technology trends, along with key updates from our firm.
Election integrity matters – We’ve got to guard this moment, and we’re talking to you, Texas legislature
This week, we ask the Texas legislature, “do you really want Putin to vote in Texas elections?” It’s time for a special session.
Hosch & Morris is Proud to Co-Sponsor and Participate in the DBA's Tech Summit
Hosch & Morris, PLLC is proud to co-sponsor and participate in the Dallas Bar Association’s Technology Summit, which is to be held in Dallas at the Belo Mansion on Friday, September 13, 2019 from 9 AM to 3:45 PM. You can register to attend here: www.tinyurl.com/dbatech2019
Help us help you again (and read about the related FTC settlement with Google)
This week, we are back with technology tips to up-secure your internet browsing. Our post is inspired by this week’s announcement that Google and YouTube agreed to $170 million settlement to resolve allegations by the FTC and the New York Attorney General that YouTube illegally collected personal information from children.
Help us help you (protect your privacy)
This week, we are offering some practical advice about protecting your personal data, advocating for privacy by design and highlighting an announcement by Google’s Project Zero that illustrates the difference security and privacy, and why it is so important that we take steps to protect our personal data.
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.
Georgia (voting machines) on our minds
This week, a federal judge in Atlanta, Georgia wisely ordered the state to be ready to use paper ballots for the 2020 election, if it fails to meet a tight deadline to implement an entirely new voting system.
Securing our Elections
This week, we call out vendors of voting machines and software that are falling short on election security, as well the governmental entities that need to wake up before election results get changed (and not just by 11 year-old hackers).
The Intersection of Privacy and Politics
This week, we consider the intersection of privacy and politics, and in the process, get apocalyptic about election interference, and apoplectic about governmental entities who contract without appropriate due diligence.
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.