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Privacy Peril: I Spy Your Wi-Fi

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Our previous Privacy Peril provided information on securing your private Wi-Fi network from public access. Here, we offer guidance on avoiding the opposite – inadvertently disclosing confidential private information through...more

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Privacy Perils: What Does Facebook Know?

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If you are a Facebook user, in light of recent news related to Facebook's practices of allowing third parties to access and use end user data without your knowledge or consent, you may be wondering whether it is time to quit...more

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NTIA Highlights Promise and Policy Challenges of IoT, Seeks Additional Comments

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On January 12, 2017, prior to the new administration taking power, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) within the Department of Commerce (Department) released a Green Paper on “Fostering the...more

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FTC hosts workshop on cross-device tracking

On November 16, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hosted a workshop focused on the growing practice of cross-device tracking and the associated privacy concerns. While many consumers are aware that their Internet...more

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CA AG Requires Chief Privacy Officer and Privacy Compliance Program

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California’s Attorney General, Kamala Harris, has required Houzz, a home décor information and e-commerce website and mobile app publisher, to hire a chief privacy officer (CPO), conduct a company-wide privacy assessment, and...more

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Will the EU’s ‘right to be forgotten’ law become global? Google sure hopes not

While Google did in fact comply with the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) May 2014 order, which allowed individuals in Europe to request that a search engine ‘delist’ certain information about them from...more

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FTC Issues Report and Privacy Best Practices for the Internet of Things

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On January 27, 2015 the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) issued a report detailing best practices and recommendations that businesses engaged in the Internet of Things (“IoT”) can follow to protect consumer privacy and...more

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My Vote for Privacy Person of the Year

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There isn’t an official Privacy Person of the Year award. If there were, Edward Snowden almost certainly would have won it last year. Instead, he finished in second place, behind Pope Francis, as TIME Magazine’s 2013 Person...more

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The Risks of Pre-employment Social Media Screening

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An increasing number of states have recently passed laws that prohibit employers from obtaining passwords to a job applicant’s social media accounts. Such legislation highlights companies’ interest in finding out as much as...more

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Thinking Outside the HIPAA Box

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On Wednesday, May 7, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held the third of its Spring Seminars on emerging consumer privacy issues. This session focused on consumer-generated health information (CHI). CHI is data generated...more

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Get That Thing Out of My Face(book)! – Canadian Woman Brings Class Action Against Facebook in Ontario for Private Message Scanning

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How private is private? This is the question at the heart of a putative class action recently brought against Facebook in Toronto. Plaintiff Lavinia Latham claims, on behalf of herself and up to 18-million similarly situated...more

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New Cellphone Promises Array of Built-in Privacy Features

Consumers will soon have access to a smartphone that automatically encrypts calls and texts, and provides anonymous web browsing, according to reports about the "Blackphone."...more

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Privacy Class Action – Theories of Liability – 2013 Year in Review

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One hot area of data privacy litigation over the past several years has been data breach class actions brought under the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (“CMIA”), which provides that a person may recover...more

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