Privacy Plus+ News
Stay informed with our latest insights on privacy and technology trends, along with key updates from our firm.
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.
California DMV is Making $50M/Year Selling Personal Information
This week, we address the issues arising from the recent report that the California Department of Motor Vehicles is generating revenue of $50,000,000 a year by selling drivers’ personal information.
Privacy Plus+: Faith, Liberty and Thanksgiving
This week, mindful of Thanksgiving, we take a quiet moment to reflect on the fidelity that we all owe to the Constitution, to the rule of law, and to our nation.
Google’s Project Nightingale – Do No Harm
This week, the Wall Street Journal broke an explosive story that Google and non-profit hospital system Ascension have been running a secret initiative known as Project Nightingale, which has amassed the protected health information (“PHI”) of over 50 million Americans across 21 states.
The High Cost of Groceries – Paying with Iris Scans
This week, we address biometric information, privacy issues in refugee camps, paying for groceries with iris scans, and a recent Lookout report indicating that UN World Food Programme (and presumably, those served by the Programme) have been hacked.
Political Lies, Behavioral Advertising, and the Complicity of Algorithms
This week, “Facebook goes beyond providing a blank slate for advertisers” and we propose solutions.
Kate Morris to speak on Privacy at Texas Minority Counsel Program on Thursday, 11/7
Join the Texas Minority Counsel Program (TMCP), Kate Morris, and Neha Parekh for fast-paced and informative presentation about “Why Privacy Matters.”
I Can Hear You Now: The Growing Danger of Voice Recognition
This week, take a moment to consider lies disguised to sound like truth, and the privacy issues presented by voice recognition technologies.
Freezing Facial Recognition – Let’s Revisit
This week, we re-visit and repeat our May 25th call to freeze face-recognition (and other advanced biometric) technologies as we highlight recent news reflecting how the chorus is growing louder in demanding a moratorium on such technologies.
Patient Dignity and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Prosperity
This week, we’re proposing legislation to help the U.S. win medical AI race while providing financial rewards for every American.
Data Dignity and Inverse Privacy
This week, we consider the concepts of data dignity and inverse privacy as alternatives to a national privacy law.
Perspective on the “new” right to be forgotten
This week, we offer perspective on the CJEU’s recently ruling that the EU’s “right to be forgotten” cannot be enforced against a search engine operator outside the EU’s borders.