The European Union is gearing up to regulate AI, but what is the U.S. doing?
•There are new Federal algorithmic transparency bills being filed:
•The Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2022, introduced by Senator Ron Wyden...more
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued guidance on pseudonymisation.
Here are some key points:
What is it?
At a basic level, pseudonymisation starts with a single input (the original data) and...more
With enforcement on children’s data privacy ramping up around the world, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has issued a detailed report on the fundamental principles of such data privacy, as well as some helpful...more
I had the pleasure of speaking during the Restaurant Technology Network Town Hall about a variety of privacy issues confronting restaurants and food delivery apps, including CCPA, CPRA, CDPA and CPA...more
U.S. Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the Republican leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and U.S. Representative Gus Bilirakis, the Republican leader for the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee,...more
Commission d’access a la information du Quebec has issued guidance on employee geolocation tracking.
Here are some key takeaways:
Unless the law expressly provides for it, a company may not require a person to be tied...more
North Dakota, Utah, Washington State. .. all three have recently introduced new pieces of data privacy legislation.
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Utah State Rep. Walt Brooks, has introduced House Bill 80, which creates an “affirmative defense”...more
Lawmakers in Oklahoma have introduced a new privacy bill.
The state’s new privacy bill imposes a duty of posting a detailed data privacy disclosure for the collection of personal information on a website. If passed, it...more
The German state of North Rhine Westphalia has issued an audit checklist for compliant use of data collected in connection with COVID-19 tracing.
This checklist will prove useful for U.S. states as similar requirements for...more
Two bills dealing with processing COVID-19 data in California were referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Assembly Bill 660 prohibits data collected, received or prepared for purposes of contact tracing from...more
Senate Bill 8450C, or An Act to Amend the Public Health Law in relation to the Confidentiality of Contact Tracing Information, passed the New York State Senate and Assembly and will be delivered to the governor’s office for...more
Cookies and trackers sat on a wall.
Cookies and trackers had a great fall.
…and all the regulators and all DPAs couldn’t put cookies together again.
The Spanish Agencia Española de Protección de Datos AEPD has issued a...more
Commenters to the final California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations asked if it is possible to provide information about, and access to the “Do not Sell” link and/or opt out opportunity in the privacy notice?
The...more
Comments on the final California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations asked if data brokers should be required to identify the factors they use in algorithmic decision making practices that affect the consumer, such as...more
Comments to the final California Consumer Privacy Act regulations asked if the CCPA carve-out regarding the Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLBA), the data protection law governing US financial institutions, applies...more
Comments to the final California Consumer Privacy Act regulations asked how franchisor/franchisee compliance with CCPA works?
•Does CCPA apply to the franchisee for collecting data on behalf of the franchisor?
•How is the...more
Comments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) final regulations asked: “If you get an access request and you know that the underlying motive for it is to conduct discovery for the purpose of contemplated litigation,...more
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), a data breach resulting from a lack of “reasonable security procedures and practices” gives rise to a private right of action (e.g. for a class action lawsuit).
Comments to...more
To extend or not to extend?
AB 1281, extending the employee and B2B exemptions for the California Consumer Privacy Act, has been amended in the California Senate.
Previously a bill dealing with limitations on facial...more
A comment submitted to the California Attorney General’s final California Consumer Privacy Act regulations asked if audio recordings are personal information under CCPA and should they be included in the specific pieces...more
For companies scrambling to button up their California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance by the July 1 enforcement date, some news out of the state capital of Sacramento:
Per a memorandum issued June 24, 2020 by the...more
A comment requested that the California Attorney General clarify the specific requirements for making privacy notices “easy to read and understandable to the average consumer” under the California Consumer Privacy Act...more
Would conspicuous by any other name … link as effectively?
Multiple comments to the final California Consumer Privacy Act regulations ask the California Attorney General to explain what “conspicuous link” means for the...more
A comment asks the California Attorney General if directing a consumer to an online form could constitute a valid notice at collection under the recently finalized California Consumer Privacy Act regulations.
The Attorney...more
The California Attorney General has addressed a wide range of questions from businesses and other interested parties, in responding to comments to final California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations. Here are three...more