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Sneaking into the Data Business

If you are not paying for a service on the Internet, you are the product being sold to paying customers. But if you are paying for the service, can you be the product too? Of course....more

[Webinar] Moving Targets While Under Fire – Aligning with New Data Laws While Hackers and Customers Bring Pressure - April 5th,...

In the past 5 years businesses felt the increasingly intricate data management rules (GDPR, CCPA, BIPA) pressed against an explosion in hacking and ransomware. Companies experience pressure from legislators, regulators,...more

State Laws Shift Geolocation’s Spot On The Privacy Map

Where are you? Your exact location is a tidbit of information that can infringe on your privacy. Knowing your location all the time can help someone map your life....more

GDPR Privacy Rules: The Other Shoe Drops

Four years after GDPR was implemented, we are seeing the pillars of the internet business destroyed. Given two new EU decisions affecting the practical management of data, all companies collecting consumer data in the EU are...more

Recreational DNA Industry May Take Liberties With Consumer Data

Companies collecting consumer DNA for non-medical purposes seem to be playing fast and loose with their customers’ data, according to a well-regarded consumer watchdog. This category of private money makers, which could...more

California and Florida Introduce Two More Genetic Privacy Laws Into the Mix

Florida and California join a growing minority of states enacting laws protecting a person’s genetic information (Nevada and Alaska also have laws). Florida’s new genetic privacy law, known as Protecting DNA Privacy Act, went...more

News Scan Finds Multiple Threats to Your Privacy

Your personal information is threatened by more pernicious tools and attacks each year. While this blog often describes poorly written privacy laws stifling business and dangerous bureaucratic overreach by privacy...more

Voice Analysis Complicates Personal Privacy

Most biometric readings require your presence in the same space as the measuring tools.  Facial recognition, retinal capture, fingerprints or hand geometry, even biomarked scents are measured in close physical proximity. The...more

Synthetic Data May Be The Solution to AI Privacy Concerns

AI is hungry for data. Training and testing the machine-learning tools to perform desired tasks consumes huge lakes of data. More data often means better AI....more

Right To Hide The Truth: How Much Should Be Deleted?

Is more information always better? If someone wants to limit the use of information, and others want to expose, discuss or publicize it, who wins?...more

How Your Car Became a Surveillance Weapon

Your car is spying on you, and you may have invited others to spy on you in the car too. We have long known that connected devices have the capabilities of tracking our movements and behavior to send to unknown data...more

In-house Roundhouse: Antitrust and the Tech Industry [Audio]

Stephanie Lambert, Chief Compliance Counsel with NetScout Systems, Inc., and Womble Bond Dickinson partner and veteran cyber attorney Ted Claypoole talk with host and business litigator, Mark Henriques, about the current...more

How Will the "New" New California Privacy Law Affect Your Business?

We had started getting (sort of) comfortable with the CCPA—California’s omnibus privacy legislation—when the state decided to change the law again. The CCPA just began to be enforced in July of 2020 when a mere 4 months...more

States Gear Up to Limit Use of Biometrics and Biological Data

This may be the year when the limitation of biometric capture goes national. Right now, companies using biometrics are driven by one state law, but others could soon join....more

Why Big Tech Wants Your Body

Your body may be a wonderland or a wasteland, but it is a goldmine of data. Collectors of information have noticed. In our midwinter exploration of the economic and legal foundations of data regulation, we next turn to a...more

One Transaction Generates Data to Feed Multitudes

Last week I jumped from the starting point of the newest U.S. anti-trust action against Google into a discussion about the legal and economic status of data. I would like to carry the discussion of data further....more

What Law, Economics and the Newest Anti-Trust Lawsuit Ask About Data

Two weeks ago I collected the major recent anti-trust/competition lawsuits, by regulators and competitors alike, filed against U.S. big technology companies. My point was that, after a long fallow period where these giants...more

EU Data Localization Would Hurt U.S. Businesses

Stung by Brexit and set adrift by a neglectful U.S. foreign policy, the European Union has started to explore new ways of breaking away from the rest of the world, including taking steps to cordon EU data into locally managed...more

2020 Ballot Initiatives Affect Tech Industry

Privacy, the gig economy, and access to digital information in our cars were all issues on ballots Tuesday for direct response of the voters. U.S. technology companies will be affected by the results of these...more

U.S. Customs Opens Mass Searches of Data on Confiscated Traveler Smartphones, Computers

I am an advocate of providing law enforcement officers the newest technology to do their jobs well. If there is a recording of an event, the police should be able to use it. If a stingray can capture cell phone...more

Is Your Privacy Violated by Using Your Face to Train AI to Recognize Faces?

If a picture of your face is used for a purpose that doesn’t identify you, is your privacy violated? If the publicly available picture was used just to show a face, distinguished from some faces, similar to others, and fed...more

Toss Out the Milk, The Cookie Party is Over

For 25 years – since the introduction of Internet Explorer 2 – our browsers supported third-party cookie technology that formed the basis of internet advertising. The cookie party is ending. Tech lawyers and business...more

California Screamin’ – Privacy Rollercoaster Becoming Steeper for Businesses

As the CCPA enforcement date of July 1, 2020 approaches next week, California privacy rights were already on the minds of many businesses. However, just as organizations wrap up month and year-long projects to address those...more

New CCPA Changes/Clarifications; Some Final, Some Contingent (2 Months to Go)

This is one of several client alerts in a series counting down to the CCPA effectuation date. Don’t wait to implement your California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) compliance mechanisms as changes to your operations may be...more

CCPA Amendments Update

Don’t wait to implement your California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance as it could require changes to your operations. As a reminder, the CCPA takes effect January 1, 2020 and can apply to businesses even if they do...more

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