Google, Data Mining

New York May Lead the Pack Through Imposition of Data Excise Taxes

BCLP on 4/9/2024

New York may lead the charge on implementation of data excise taxes (i.e., “data mining taxes”) which will impose taxes on businesses that collect personal data. These data excise taxes primarily target large tech companies...more

Mississippi AG Sues Google for Collection of Student Data

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 1/23/2017

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood filed a Complaint against Google last week for alleged violations of the state’s Consumer Protection Act for its collection and use of students’ personal information and search history....more

Berkeley students sue Google for mining emails for ads through Apps for Education

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 2/5/2016

Four students attending the University of California, Berkeley, sued Google last week alleging that it violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act by scanning and mining their emails in order to create advertising...more

Is Google Illegally Spying On Your Students? New FTC Complaint Says It Is

Franczek P.C. on 12/8/2015

Google Apps for Education has recently come under fire with a Federal Trade Commission complaint filed by a nonprofit organization, Electronic Frontier Foundation. In a press release issued last week, EFF claims that Google’s...more

Disclosing Data Collection Practices: Is An Opt-Out Program Enough?

Nossaman LLP on 2/4/2015

Verizon Wireless announced last Friday that its customers will soon be able to opt out of the tracking identifiers Verizon uses to target ads at its customers. These tracking identifiers, dubbed supercookies, are unique...more

Status Updates - November 2014 #10

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media on 11/24/2014

Commercial free content. Would you pay to diminish the number of ads that appear on your screen while you surf the Web? Google is testing a service that will allow users to do just that. The service, called Contributor, will...more