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
Jenny L. Colgate
Beware of COVID-19 Scams
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. …
Google. BIPA. Again.
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…
Clearview AI Sued in Class Action for Violating BIPA
Earlier this week we wrote about the NJ AG’s ban of the Clearview AI’s facial recognition app, which is marketed to law enforcement agencies to help stop criminals. We hypothesized about a BIPA suit against Clearview AI and whether, for example, Facebook’s settlement of a BIPA class action would exhaust remedies, at least with…
And They’re Off… The First Data Breach Suit Citing CCPA Was Filed This Week
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 …
GDPR Enforcement a Foreshadowing of 2020-2021 US Privacy and Cybersecurity Litigation?
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…
NJ AG Bans Clearview AI – Preventing a Chain of Privacy Violations or Interfering with Clearview’s Intellectual Property?
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…
Beware of BIPA
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…
Big News in Biometrics – Supreme Court Declines to Weigh in on What Plaintiffs Must Show to Bring Biometric Privacy Suit
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…