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Stay informed with our latest insights on privacy and technology trends, along with key updates from our firm.
Privacy Notices – Nobody Reads the Small Print. Is it Time for New Legislation?
This week, let’s consider the problem with privacy notices alongside pending U.S. privacy legislation.
Resources on COVID-19 Privacy and Cybersecurity Issues
This week, we highlight privacy and cybersecurity resources from regulators and other data protection authorities and organizations.
Unity, Liberty and Justice for All
This week, we abandon privacy and technology to face more pressing issues—injustices, threats to freedom and our collective pledge to uphold the Constitution.
Back to the Future – Revisiting Section 230
This week, let’s consider an old law—Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act —now being targeted by a new executive order.
A New Study on Privacy and Bias in Facial Recognition Technologies
This week, we highlight a new facial recognition study on privacy and bias released by the RAND Corporation.
Contact-Tracing and Privacy
This week, let’s consider the privacy concerns associated with contact-tracing, and how those concerns can be addressed.
CEO Indictment and Derivative Litigation May Foretell the Next Chapter in Privacy and Cyber Liability
This week, let’s consider why the indictment of Blue Bell’s ex-CEO matters to privacy and cybersecurity liability for executives and boards of directors.
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.