By Victoria Hudgins | April 8, 2021
Data collection is already increasingly challenging because of emerging privacy laws. But a recent International Association of Privacy Professionals panel also noted that younger generations' privacy preferences may add even more additional hurdles.
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By Katherine B. Forrest | March 29, 2021
By now, we are used to the fact that facial recognition technology allows our phones to identify — to see our email, do our banking, order food and hail a ride service. But the pace is picking up. AI facial and voice recognition technologies can do more, faster. For those new lawyers and law student readers, take note: Privacy law is a growth field.
By Alaina Lancaster | March 22, 2021
Facebook's Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher counsel contends that adding dozens of documents leaked by a defunct bikini-photo app to the public docket in the litigation stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal would "reflect a misleading and one-sided narrative."
By Cheryl Miller | March 17, 2021
"The creation of this commission is the genesis of a real enforcement arm to help consumers protect their data," said Alastair Mactaggart, the San Francisco developer who co-authored both laws.
By Frank Ready | March 16, 2021
With the addition of Virginia's Consumer Data Protection Act, the number of privacy laws on the landscape continues to swell. But there's not always harmonization among the laws, meaning companies' compliance policies will likely differ when it comes to things like opt-in/opt-out provisions, employee data and risk assessments.
By Tom McParland | March 10, 2021
A Manhattan federal judge has ruled that Apple Inc. cannot force arbitration in a proposed class action accusing the tech giant of concealing a flaw in its operating system that gave third parties unauthorized access to customers' private communications.
By Frank Ready | March 9, 2021
Virginia's Consumer Data Protection Act followed the California Consumer Privacy Act to become the second state-level privacy regulation to go into effect. However, with several other states actively considering similar legislation, businesses might find compliance to become an increasingly difficult target to hit due to the bevy of minute variations at play.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 3, 2021
U.S. District Judge Michelle Childs instructed lawyers to consider a diverse team to lead about 20 lawsuits against Blackbaud. Five weeks later, she followed through.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 2, 2021
At a preliminary approval hearing on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge John Lee, of the Northern District of Illinois, wanted more information as to why class members would not receive notice of the settlement through TikTok's own app, which might improve the predicted claims rate of less than 2%.
By Amanda Bronstad | February 26, 2021
In a Friday order, U.S. District Judge James Donato of the Northern District of California, who initially rejected preliminary approval of the settlement when it was worth $550 million, noted that each class member would get $345. "By any measure, the $650 million settlement in this biometric privacy class action is a landmark result," wrote Donato.
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