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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

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The Netherlands: Update on employers' use of CoronaCheck app

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As previously discussed, there are several considerations Dutch employers need to keep in mind if they want to scan the QR code on their employees' CoronaCheck app. This discussion is now in full swing and CEOs of a number of...more

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The Netherlands: Considerations on employers’ use of the CoronaCheck app

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Employers that want to scan the QR code on their employees' CoronaCheck app would do well to draw up a policy that outlines the measures for providing a safe workplace....more

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Data Compliance Issues for Cos. Making, Using Vaccine Apps

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For most of 2020, the world struggled with COVID-19 and its effects. Earlier in the pandemic, we published a Law360 guest article offering privacy guidance to developers interested in creating contact-tracing...more

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Financial Daily Dose 4.30.2021 | Top Story: U.S. Economy Flourishes in Q1 on Pent-up Demand and Stimulus Spending

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New numbers show that the U.S. economy “picked up speed last quarter,” expanding 1.6% in the first three months of the year [for an annualized 6.4%], as a mix of stimulus money and falling unemployment helped power consumer...more

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Financial Daily Dose 4.26.2021 | Top Story: Bitcoin Bounces Back Over 50k

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Bitcoin’s back (and no, it never really left), thanks to a rally this morning that pushed its value up as much as 10% at one point in early trading today. Elon Musk’s weekend tweeting and news that presumptive top NFL draft...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.25.2021 | Top Story: Still-Blocked Suez Canal Adds to Supply-Chain Woes, Pushes Prices Higher

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More on how the clogged Suez Canal is combining with “a burst of demand for consumer goods” thanks to a resurgent U.S. economy is “heaping pressure on already strained supply chains” and potentially push prices higher in...more

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Coronavirus: The Hill and the Headlines, March 2021 # 13

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In Washington: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is planning to extend the tax-filing deadline to mid-May, according to two top House Democrats. A news release Wednesday from House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.15.2021 | Top Story: Stripe Hits $95 Billion Valuation, Tops Among Startups

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Six-hundred million in its latest funding round means that payments company Stripe’s valuation now tops $95 billion, “making it the most valuable start-up in the United States”....more

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Financial Daily Dose 2.10.2021 | Top Story: U.S. Drops Plans to Force TikTok Sale to Oracle and Walmart

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After months of drama that we dutifully catalogued right here, the U.S. plan to “force the sale of TikTok’s American operations” to Oracle and Walmart “has been shelved indefinitely.” The forced sale has “languished since...more

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Financial Daily Dose 2.2.2021 | Top Story: CBO Projects Faster US Recovery But Lagging Employment

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New CBO projections suggest that even without additional Congressional aid, the “American economy will return to its pre-pandemic size by the middle of this year.” While encouraging, the report offers cold comfort for the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Curbside Pickup and Geofencing – How Your Favorite Retailer Knows You’ve Arrived

It’s that shopping time of year again and we are in the midst of a pandemic, so some of us are shopping differently than in the past. Curbside pickup is an option that has become more popular and for good reason. It’s quick,...more

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COVID-19, Mobile Health & the Importance of Maintaining Legal Compliance in an Era of Explosive Growth

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It is increasingly important for mobile app developers to ensure their products comply with all governing state and federal laws, and it is critical to understand which business changes might place your product under a...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.30.2020 | Top Story: Salesforce in Talks to Buy Slack Technologies

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Bay area business software powerhouse Salesforce is “in advanced talks to buy Slack Technologies,” the “buzzy newcomer on a mission to replace office email.” A deal could be announced as early as tomorrow, and it would mark...more

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Is Your Business Adequately Providing Accommodations in the Wake of the Pandemic?

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The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many aspects of our daily lives, including how we socialize and interact with others in public. By now, we are all very familiar with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.28.2020 | Top Story: Big Tech CEOs to Face Senators Today Over Section 230 and Content Monitoring

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A handful of tech’s biggest leaders—the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, and Google, to be precise—descend upon the Hill today for a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on content monitoring and Section 230, the “slim and powerful...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.12.2020 | Top Story: Court Rules Apple Doesn’t Have to Offer Fortnite in App Store

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Big Friday win for Apple in its ongoing battle with Epic Games, as N.D. Cal. Federal Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Cook & Co. didn’t “need to reinstate the popular video game Fortnite in its App Store,” a blow to...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.5.2020 | Top Story: Jobs Report Details Alarming Rise in Long-Term U.S. Unemployment

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Along with the topline numbers (661,000 jobs added in September and unemployment rate declined to 7.9%), Friday’s U.S Jobs Report delivered the rough news that 2.4 million Americans have now been out of work for 27 weeks or...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.24.2020 | Top Story: JPMorgan Nears $1B Settlement Over Alleged Spoofing

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JPMorgan is preparing to finalize a deal with federal prosecutors and regulators in which the bank would pay nearly $1 billion to “settle civil and criminal charges that its traders rigged futures and securities markets”...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.21.2020 | Top Story: White House Signs Off on Deal for Oracle & Walmart to Take Stake in TikTok

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The White House has given its crucial imprimatur to a deal for Oracle (and Walmart) to take a stake in Chinese video app TikTok, “an agreement that will delay the U.S. government’s threat to block the popular app in the...more

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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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Financial Daily Dose 9.8.2020 | Top Story: Markets Slide Amidst So-So Jobs Report and Tech Reset

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Last Friday’s US Jobs Report saw unemployment fall to 8.4%, but the end of federal aid programs and a solid-but-not-gangbusters 1.4 million jobs gained in August leads many to fear a much worse employment picture ahead....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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Financial Daily Dose 9.2.2020 | Top Story: Treasury Secretary Calls for More Virus-Related Relief As U.S. Economic Recovery Stalls

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In a House Select Subcommittee meeting on Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called for more Congressional action to provide coronavirus relief and promised a White House initiative to protect renters from eviction....more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.28.2020 | Top Story: In Major Policy Shift, Fed Embraces Inflation to Keep Rates Low

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In hotly anticipated comments on Thursday—and yes, such a designation applies to a speech on monetary policy—Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell “announced a major shift in how the central bank guides the economy, signaling it...more

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