Privacy Plus+ News
Stay informed with our latest insights on privacy and technology trends, along with key updates from our firm.
Online Platforms Under Pressure
This week, let’s consider how online platforms are under pressure from proposed laws covering anti-counterfeiting, contributory liability, disinformation, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and more.
Go Ahead and Mess with Texas -- The AG Won’t Mind?
This week, let’s consider enforcement of biometric data laws in the United States.
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.
Get Smart about California IoT Law, Etc.
This week, let’s consider all of your smart technologies against California’s Internet of Things (IoT) law, and then let’s talk about the TikTok executive order and how the U.S. should be thinking about a more comprehensive strategy for security and privacy.
The "Hipster" Antitrust Hearing
This week, let’s consider the House’s historic antitrust hearing, the reckoning faced by Big Tech companies, and why we think data privacy and monopolies of data should factor into antitrust considerations.
Cybersecurity - All is Not Quiet on the Social Media Front
This week, let’s consider Twitter’s out-sized role in American society alongside its cybersecurity problems.
The E.U.-U.S. Digital Divide
This week, as Europe’s highest court invalidates the EU-US Privacy Shield, let’s consider resolving the larger issues —the improbable existence of “privacy islands” in a digital world that doesn’t respect boundaries and what your company should do now.
Cameras from a Different Angle
This week, let’s consider the deployment of cameras all over San Francisco—a city under a new kind of neighborhood watch.
Zero-Trust Frameworks Explained
This week, let’s briefly explore Zero Trust as a modern security strategy.
5 Tips for Protecting Your Home Network and Devices
This week, we return to a popular topic, offering practical advice about how to protect your privacy and data on your home networks and devices.
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.