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Class Action Filed Against Commonwealth of Massachusetts for Alleged COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Spyware Installation

This week, a lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for its use of a COVID-19 contact-tracing app for residents’ mobile phones. However, very few residents...more

Knobbe Martens

Class Action Against Google Over COVID-19 Contact Tracking App Highlights New Layers of Data Privacy Consideration

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On April 27, 2021, a class action lawsuit was filed against Google, Inc. (“Google”) alleging that the Google-Apple Exposure Notification System (“GAEN”) – the company’s COVID-19 contact tracking app – contained a flaw that...more

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New York And New Jersey Release COVID-19 Exposure Apps

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New York and New Jersey release “COVID Alert NY” and “COVID Alert NJ,” apps designed to alert their users when they have been exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19. These apps follow those released in...more

McDermott Will & Emery

International News: Focus on Global Privacy and Cybersecurity - September 2020

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Generally, contact tracing refers to an effort by public health officials to identify individuals with whom a patient who has tested positive for an infectious disease has been in close proximity. Public health officials will...more

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Data Privacy Issues in COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps

In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, technology companies and public health authorities around the world have been developing contact tracing apps as a way to track and thus slow the spread of the virus....more

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The Toughest Problem Set: Navigating Regulatory and Operational Challenges on University Campuses

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When the academic year ended in the spring of 2020, many US university students assumed that a return to campus would be straightforward this fall. However, it is now clear—at least in the near term—that a return to the old...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Contact Tracing: Privacy Implications and Practical Considerations

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Almost as soon as COVID-19 began ravaging the world, countries turned their hopes to mobile apps as a weapon to fight against it. Contact tracing was quickly recognized as a potential tool to monitor, and possibly contain,...more

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NY Senate Sends Contact Tracing Data Privacy Bill To Gov. Cuomo’s Desk

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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

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Employer Use of Contact Tracing Apps: The Good, the Bad, and the Regulatory

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Employers struggle with COVID-19 for any number of reasons. However, perhaps one of the main challenges they face is how to keep employees safe, even when one of them tests positive for or is exposed to COVID-19. They are...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - June 2020 #2

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Cyber-Attacks Against Maritime Industry Quadrupled in Last Few Months - A recent report released by the British Ports Association and Astaara, a risk management firm based in the U.K., concludes that since February of 2020,...more

Orrick - Employment Law and Litigation

COVID-19 Germany: The New Corona-Warn-App – What Employers Need to Know

A few days ago, the much-anticipated official Corona-Warn-App, commissioned by the German government, went live – and has since been downloaded over 10 million times. The goal is to convince as many people as possible to use...more

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EU Member States agree on interoperability specifications for national COVID-19 tracing apps

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Digital tools such as mobile apps with warning and tracing functionalities that identify contacts of confirmed COVID-19 infections are said to be crucial for alerting users to the risk of infection and helping to interrupt...more

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Privacy Concerns Multiply as Digital Contact Tracing Spreads: U.S. Tech Industry Takes the Lead as Congress Fails to Act

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As businesses and other organizations in the private sector cautiously open their doors in the wake of the pandemic, DCT enables more efficient tracing of infected employees and notification to those at-risk. DCT also offers...more

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Use of the Coronavirus Alert App in the Employment Relationship

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HOW DOES THE CORONA-ALERT APP WORK? The Corona Alert App (“App”) is used to exchange anonymised contact IDs of smartphones when users with the installed app come close to each other. The IDs are stored decentrally on the...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Exposure Notification Privacy Act: Bipartisan Bill Introduced to Regulate Covid-19 Contact Tracing Apps

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As cities across the country begin to reopen, companies and public health officials look for ways to combat the spread of COVID-19. One such way is through contact tracing apps. Of course, such apps come with it the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

AGs Express Concerns About Contact Tracing Apps and Protection of Consumer Personal Information

As many states continue to reopen businesses and permit more gatherings, public health officials are looking to contact tracing as a key strategy for preventing further spread of COVID-19.  In contact tracing, public health...more

Sunstein LLP

Back to Work: The Use of Contact Tracing Technology to Improve Worker Safety

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The Covid-19 pandemic has spawned a number of novel technologies aimed at suppressing the spread of the coronavirus. In China, for example, the most popular messaging and payment apps contain technology that requires a user...more

Epstein Becker & Green

#WorkforceWednesday: Mobile Tracking Technologies, Added PPP Flexibility, Return-to-Work Plans - Employment Law This Week®

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Welcome to #WorkforceWednesday. Here’s the week’s top workforce management and employment law news: Mobile Tracking Technologies (video featuring attorneys Adam Forman, Karen Mandelbaum, and George Whipple) Mobile...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Up Close & Personal: Contact-Tracing Apps & Employee Privacy

Our proximity and “close contact” with other humans is on the front lines in the war against coronavirus. Yet tracking 6 feet of distance from every human we encounter for a 14 day period is nearly impossible without the...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Moving Forward to the New Normal: 10 Key Questions About Digital Contact Tracing Applications

Just as the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 fundamentally changed our approach to national security, the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 will fundamentally alter our approach to public health. September 11th caused us to...more

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Financial Daily Dose 5.21.2020 | Top Story: Podcaster Joe Rogan Signs Spotify Deal Worth $100M

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Podcasting megastar (and, for me, “News Radio” jack-of-all-trades) Joe Rogan has signed a multiyear deal to bring his “Joe Rogan Experience” show to Spotify, an agreement that “could be worth more than $100 million based on...more

K&L Gates LLP

COVID-19: When EU Tracking Apps Meet the Pandemic, Trust and Privacy by Design Are the Hosts

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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread around the world and cause unprecedented health and economic challenges, technological measures, once thought extreme, are now being deployed for the purposes of contact tracing,...more

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Japan’s Personal Information Protection Committee Releases Guidance on Contract Tracing Mobile Apps to Combat COVID-19

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On May 1, the Personal Information Protection Committee in Japan (PPC) released guidance (only available in Japanese) on the use of contact tracing mobile apps (Apps) as one of the mechanisms to combat the spread of COVID-19...more

Orrick - Employment Law and Litigation

Employers as Contact Tracers: the Employment and Privacy Implications of Returning to Work

Of the many new terms that we have learned as part of the current pandemic, ‘contact tracing’ is one that seems to offer some light at the end of the tunnel....more

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Designing a Fourth-Amendment-Friendly Bluetooth Contact Tracing App in the United States

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The quest to design a coronavirus contact tracing application in the United States using mobile devices’ Bluetooth technology must take into consideration whether such an application would violate an individual’s Fourth...more

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