Unlimited law enforcement application of facial recognition software to surveillance footage is an unreasonable search and a violation of Constitutional rights for people in a peaceful crowd. An officer should need to...more
6/23/2020
/ Criminal Investigations ,
Facial Recognition Technology ,
First Amendment ,
Fourth Amendment ,
Law Enforcement ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Police ,
Police Power ,
Privacy Concerns ,
Surveillance ,
Warrants
Last week’s tech company announcements about facial recognition software startled me, but probably not for the reason you might imagine.
Amazon, IBM and Microsoft all boosted their socially conscious credibility by moving...more
6/16/2020
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biometric Information ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Facial Recognition Technology ,
First Amendment ,
Law Enforcement ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Police ,
Privacy Concerns ,
Search Warrant ,
Surveillance ,
Technology Sector
You are being watched.
And in these trying times of COVID-19 and major political protests, surveillance matters.
It seems everyone is making judgments about whether we protect ourselves or society when we leave the...more
6/9/2020
/ Biometric Information ,
Civil Liberties ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Data Protection ,
Facial Recognition Technology ,
First Amendment ,
FL Supreme Court ,
Law Enforcement ,
Police Misconduct ,
Privacy Laws ,
Protests ,
Surveillance
Although it seems that every day less people care about their privacy, the ability to maintain parts of your life as private remains crucial to our democracy, our economy, and our personal wellbeing. Many people expose their...more
6/5/2020
/ Anonymity ,
Big Data ,
Coercion ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Personal Information ,
Privacy Concerns ,
Privacy Laws ,
Reputation Management ,
Reputational Injury ,
Video Privacy Protection Act
Don’t wait to implement your California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance as it could require changes to your operations. CCPA can apply to businesses even if they do not have offices or employees in California. It can...more
This is one of several client alerts in a series counting down to the date when CCPA applies (Almost 1 month to go) -
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) takes effect for businesses January 1, 2020. Don’t wait to...more
11/27/2019
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Comment Period ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Protection ,
Data Sellers ,
Employee Privacy Rights ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Personal Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
Public Comment ,
Website Owner Liability
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
10/24/2019
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
COPPA ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Processors ,
Data Protection ,
Online Safety for Children ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Privacy Policy ,
Right to Delete ,
State Data Breach Notification Statutes
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
9/19/2019
/ Amended Legislation ,
B2B Organizations ,
B2B Transactions ,
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Data Collection ,
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ,
Governor Newsom ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
Private Right of Action
If your company holds or collects data in the US, the UK and elsewhere in the EU, you should be mapping out how data flows through those jurisdictions in anticipation of the UK “crashing out” of the European Union in October,...more
On August 9, 2019, Illinois’ governor signed the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act (Act), into law, and will take effect on January 1, 2020. The Act governs an employer’s ability to use artificial intelligence...more
On August 1st, the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information announced that the Hamburg Data Protection Commission (HDPC) had opened an administrative procedure to prohibit Google from carrying out...more
Don’t wait to implement your California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance as it could require changes to your operations. CCPA can apply to businesses even if they do not have offices or employees in California. It can...more
8/2/2019
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Right to Delete
New York City (NYC) Council members are proposing unprecedented action to curb location data sharing. The City Council bill to ban the sharing of cellphone users' geo-location data to marketers was presented for debate after...more
One of the EU’s chief complaints against US privacy practices is the lack of enforcement of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (Privacy Shield). Last week we saw a US enforcement action that may allay this concern. The US...more
Last week, the New York State Senate, at the request of the state attorney general, passed the “Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act” (the “Shield” Act). The bill is currently working its way through the New...more
Don’t wait to implement your California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance. California’s new privacy law goes into effect January 1, 2020. Consumer lawsuits are expected to follow shortly after implementation. CCPA can...more
Oregon amended its data breach notice statute (ORS §§ 646A.600 – 646A.628) on May 24, 2019. Beginning January 1, 2020, Oregon will be the first state to explicitly require vendors to notify the attorney general about data...more
The California State Assembly has passed several amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) this legislative session. Among the total of four CCPA amendments that were passed in the Assembly this week, two have...more
6/3/2019
/ Amended Legislation ,
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Consumer Protection Laws ,
Customer Information ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
E-Commerce ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation
According to the highest court in the state, Georgia state government does not have an inherent obligation to protect citizens’ personal or sensitive data like social security numbers or status on the unemployment rolls. This...more
Most of the reaction to Donald Trump’s sweeping new Executive Order, declaring a national emergency to combat “the ability of foreign adversaries to create and exploit vulnerabilities in information and communications...more
Don’t wait to implement your California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance as it could require changes to your operations. CCPA can apply to businesses even if they do not have offices or employees in California. It can...more
California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will go into effect on January 1, 2020. CCPA can apply to businesses even if they do not have offices or employees in California. For-profit businesses that collect or use personal...more
Privacy Shield participants must update their privacy notices by March 29, 2019 (if the UK crashes out of the EU then with no deal) to continue to rely on the Privacy Shield for UK to US transfers post-Brexit. Privacy Shield...more
3/19/2019
/ Corporate Counsel ,
Data Protection ,
Data Protection Authority ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
International Data Transfers ,
No-Deal Brexit ,
Personal Data ,
Privacy Policy ,
Swiss Privacy Shield ,
UK Brexit ,
Withdrawal Agreement
Were the Beatles still recording today, they might have to add this verse to Taxman. As what will surely be the opening salvo in government efforts to find ways to recapture the value of the personal data upon which so much...more
Who can track your location through your smartphone? The phone companies have the ability to do so, and until recently, have been selling your location data to private companies so that bounty hunters and creditors could...more
2/26/2019
/ Bounty Hunters ,
Cell Phones ,
Data Collection ,
Debt Collection ,
FCC ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Geolocation ,
GPS ,
Location Data ,
Privacy Concerns ,
Smartphones ,
Tracking Systems