With many businesses still hitting the “pause” button and employees working remotely for at least the foreseeable future, it is a great time to start considering whether the emerging trend of data privacy regulations may apply to your business, and if so, to start mapping out the steps towards compliance and overall better privacy hygiene.
Starting last month, companies around the United States started to reopen their doors to their employees and customers, but not without first considering what “checks” should be done to ensure a safe environment for all. Temperature checks, COVID-19 testing, symptom reporting, travel history questionnaires, geolocation tracking and other surveillance measures, and even using AI to
Are targeted ads the result of wiretapping? Companies track your browsing history all the time through the use of, inter alia, cookies, and then mine the data they receive for purposes like targeted advertising. Because the cookies make the users computer send electronic communications without the users’ knowledge is this wiretapping?
Put differently, can a
Partners Martin Zoltick, Jenny Colgate, and Christopher Ott will present a webinar with the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) on “Employee and Customer Health Data: Back to Work in COVID-19” on Friday, June 5, 2020, at 10 a.m. EDT. The virtual event is open to all interested in attending.
As organizations open their
ADT LLC, a security company that offers customers, inter alia, video monitoring of their homes, has been sued in Florida federal court due to employee accessing and viewing footage over the course of several years from in-home security cameras of 220 customers. The rogue employee was a technician for the defendant and in charge
A plaintiff recently lost her battle with Shutterfly in the Northern District of Illinois when the Court ruled that Shutterfly’s arbitration clause was binding, notwithstanding Shutterfly’s unilateral amendments to its Terms of Use, including adding an arbitration provision after plaintiff clicked “Accept.” The case is now stayed pending the outcome of arbitration.
The plaintiff was
Last week NASA reported that it awarded contracts to three companies to build spacecraft capable of landing humans on the moon—Blue Origin (owned by Jeff Bezos); Dynetics (a Leidos subsidiary); and SpaceX (owned by Elon Musk). The current plan is purportedly to, in 2024, fly astronauts to the Orion spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, to
There was a sense among many that websites whose data was being scraped may have lost a claim against data scrapers last year—specifically, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)—when the Northern District of California, and then the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sided with data scraper, hiQ, in
There are a number of state student privacy laws of which schools and technology companies whose programs and services are being used for educational purposes during the Coronavirus pandemic should be aware.
For example, a number of states have student online personal information protection acts (SOPIPAs) which prohibit website, online/cloud service, and application vendors from
Just last year the public was scrutinizing Big Tech for its collection and use of extraordinary amounts of data about people’s activities, from real-world location tracking to virtual lingering and clicks. This scrutiny led to the landmark California Consumer Privacy Act, among other general privacy and data protection laws around the world. Will Big Tech