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There is no doubt that we are generating, processing, and transferring more data RIGHT NOW than we ever have before.  It is almost certain that our data generation, processing and transmission is many, many times that today than it was this same time last week—not to mention last month—because of “work-around” efforts due to the

More people than ever before are teleworking.  Schools are closed.  Events are cancelled.  Live sports are cancelled.  Restaurants in many areas are closed.  So, what are a lot of people doing?  They are reading the news.  And a lot of them are looking for the latest information on the COVID-19 outbreak.

And scammers know this. 

Another BIPA class action was filed this week – this time against Google.  Again.  Google has been sued under BIPA before, and for seemingly the same violations as here, i.e., creating “face prints” from photos stored in Google Photos without having obtained prior, informed written consent.   The Complaint that was filed this week alleges: “Google

On February 3, 2020, Bernadette Barnes, a private resident of California (on behalf of herself and others similarly situated), brought the first data breach suit citing CCPA ever.  The suit named Hanna Andersson (company specializing in high end children’s apparel) and Salesforce.com (cloud technology service as a software (“SaaS”) company) as defendants, and brought claims

ZDNet.com, relying on research by Forrester Research, recently reported that “GDPR enforcement is on fire!”  This is likely a foreshadowing of the prevalence of US privacy enforcement proceedings in the near future.  Indeed, it appears that if the FTC and AG offices are not able to keep up, plaintiffs in the United States are more

The New Jersey attorney general recently made headlines when he made the decision on January 24, 2020 to have prosecutors immediately stop using a facial recognition app produced by Clearview AI (https://clearview.ai/).  Clearview AI is an app that markets itself as helping to stop criminals.  The Clearview AI website states: “Clearview helps to

Following up on our post of January 22, 2020 (“Big News in Biometrics – Supreme Court Declines to Weigh in on What Plaintiffs Must Show to Bring Biometric Privacy Suit”), Facebook has now agreed to pay $550 million to settle the BIPA class action lawsuit.  This is the largest BIPA settlement ever, and it will

On January 21, 2020, the Supreme Court denied Facebook’s Petition for Certiorari, raising the issues of (i) Whether a court can find Article III standing based on its conclusion that a state protects a concrete interest, without determining that the plaintiff suffered a personal, real-world injury from the alleged statutory violation; (ii) whether a court