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[Virtual Event] The Privacy Pro Survival Summit 2.0: This Time It’s Personal - April 10th, 10:30 am - 5:30 pm EST

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Privacy pros are passionate about doing good work, in every sense of the word. Yes, we care about managing privacy as thoroughly and efficiently as possible (and not getting fined). But we are all in this line of work for a...more

Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A.

Holding Government Contractors Accountable: Safeguarding Taxpayer Data

Taxpayer confidentiality isn’t just a legal technicality—it’s a fundamental pillar of trust in the U.S. tax system. Federal law is designed to ensure that individuals and businesses can comply with tax obligations without...more

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The Great Encryption Standoff: Apple vs. the UK’s Surveillance Push

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In the quiet corridors of Apple’s headquarters, executives face a decision that could reshape the future of digital privacy for billions of users worldwide. The catalyst? A controversial order from the United Kingdom’s...more

Dechert LLP

Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 69

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UK Data Regulator Responds to Google’s Policy Shift on Fingerprinting - Google announced that starting February 16, 2025, its platform program policies will change to remove the prohibition in its current policies against...more

J.S. Held

Data Privacy for the Future: Strategies to Limit Digital Risk and Liability

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Your perspectives and perceptions towards a problem drive your approach to solving that problem. Managing data privacy challenges are no different. Therefore, to address today’s issues, it is a worthwhile exercise to review...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #427 – Ahead of the TikTok Ban, Users are Turning to Another Chinese App with Similar Privacy Concerns – What you...

TikTok users are seeking alternate platforms to share and view content as the U.S. is set to ban the popular social media app on January 19, 2025. Instead of turning to U.S.-based companies like Facebook or Instagram, users...more

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AI Surveillance and Data Privacy at the Games

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As the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games (the “Games”) turn onto the final straight, the Games have yet again captured widespread global attention, on and off the track. With over 15.3 million visitors in Paris...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded - Technology Law Insights, Issue 21, 2022

EU and U.S. Agree to New Data-Sharing Pact, Offering Some Respite for Big Tech “For over a year, officials on either side of the Atlantic have been hashing out a deal to replace the so-called Privacy Shield.” Why this...more

Perkins Coie

FTC Chair Lina Khan Gives First Public Address Regarding Privacy

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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan spoke at the opening of the International Association of Privacy Professionals Global Privacy Summit on April 11, 2022, in Washington, D.C. In her first public speech on privacy...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Will NeuralHash Make a Hash of Privacy?

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Our personal technology is so complex that making a change in one aspect is likely to affect us in many ways. When tech companies step into social issues, we are likely to see unintended consequences....more

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Amazon Sidewalk Shares Your Home WiFi with the Neighbors

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We always suspected that the Amazon Echo resting quietly in your family room was more insidious than it seemed. Now we have confirmation. We know that the Echo can hear us.  We also know that it records private conversations...more

Butler Snow LLP

A Virtual Reality: What Videoconference Platforms Can Do to Prevent or Defend Data Security and Privacy Lawsuits

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Videoconferences have become “virtually” ubiquitous in today’s workforce, particularly as COVID-19 continues to transform how businesses operate from day to day.  To maintain social distancing, most businesses have encouraged...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #249 – Use of Personal Assistants While Working from Home

I continue to be quite surprised at the lack of understanding that people have about personal assistants such as Alexa and Echo. It seems logical to me that when you yell out “Alexa, turn on the lights!”...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Are We (Finally) Ready to Zoom?

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Zoom’s video communications platform service and its data privacy issues and security vulnerabilities have been a very hot topic of late, covered by numerous media outlets and in our recent Password Protected post. Due in...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Hackers Spoofing Zoom to Obtain Credentials and Passwords

After incidents of Zoom “bombing,” including a recent intrusion by hackers to disrupt a church service with foul content (don’t these guys have better things to do?), it has been reported that hackers are now taking advantage...more

Perkins Coie

Cameras, Temperatures, and Apps Oh My! COVID-19 Checklist for Commercial Landlords and Tenants

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Commercial landlords and tenants are preparing to safeguard their employees and customers from COVID-19 risks. Thermal cameras to measure temperatures, facial recognition, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS are all being leveraged to...more

Vedder Price

Zooming into New Privacy Issues

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“Should we do a Zoom?” It has taken little more than a month for the Zoom video conference platform to take its place among the likes of Google, Kleenex and Xerox as brand names synonymous with the product or service being...more

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Zoom Demonstrates that Security Is Not IT’s Problem

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Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, remote meetings have become “the new normal,” with Zoom, seemingly overnight, becoming the platform of choice. Zoom’s success is attributable to the fact that “it just works.”...more

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So What's All This About Zoom?

For the time being, many Americans are at home due to the COVID-19 virus, but they are continuing to work, learning to homeschool and socializing with friends thanks to virtual platforms. Although there are a variety of...more

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How Private is Zoom® Videoconferencing?

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Many of us find ourselves attending meetings by video conference, such as Zoom. You might even be having confidential interactions with your clients, medical providers, or legal providers. If you are wondering how secure...more

International Lawyers Network

The Role of Artificial Intelligence

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the fashion and beauty industries — and the marketing of the same — has steadily gained traction over the last few years and it’s not hard to see why. AI provides a myriad of...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the...

MaHIMA Webinar: "Alexa, What Medication Am I Taking?" (Presentation)

"Open the pod door, HAL" • Commercial voice-activated intelligent personal assistants from Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft, among others, are growing in popularity. • A report from NPR and Edison Research states...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Technology at a Price: Risks With Using Biometric Scanning in the Workplace - Labor & Employment Newsletter

Parents who took their children to Disney World in recent years may have been surprised when Disney “cast members” asked the young princes and princesses to place a finger on a scanner before entering the parks. Biometric...more

Perkins Coie

Proposed Washington Privacy Act Tracks GDPR and CCPA Protections and Emphasizes Facial Recognition

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Washington state has joined the growing ranks of states considering data privacy legislation in the wake of the European General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Senate Bill 5376,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Pass It On: Locks Don’t Prevent Leaks

It is common for individuals to see the “padlock icon” on their browser bar when visiting a website, and assume they are safe. Sadly, this assumption is no longer valid. As we approach Data Privacy Day (January 28, 2019) many...more

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