A lawsuit recently filed against Amazon.com for a violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Protection Act (“BIPA”) should serve as a reminder to all companies engaged in COVID-19-related employee and/or customer scanning that it is important to determine what privacy and cybersecurity laws apply to your screening measures, and confirm that you are engaging in
On Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation conducted a hearing to revisit the potential for a national data privacy standard. While the Committee had met last December to discuss what Congress should consider when drafting a federal privacy bill, the game has since changed. Given that COVID-19 has drastically altered life as
Is a U.S. federal privacy law on the horizon?
Tomorrow, September 23rd at 10:00 a.m., U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a hearing titled, “Revisiting the Need for Federal Data Privacy Legislation.”
The hearing will examine the current state of consumer data privacy and legislative
Partners Martin Zoltick and Jenny Colgate, along with associate Caitlin Wilmot, will present a webinar titled “Connected Healthcare – Navigating the Patchwork of US Privacy Laws and Developing a Platform that Promotes Trust” for the American Bar Association (ABA) on Monday, September 21, 2020, at 1 pm ET.
As the field of connected
Have you seen the new headline about Twitter in the news? It may be time to double-check your corporate practices and check-in with your employees.
The top new FTC privacy probe concerns Twitter, which has been charged by the FTC for breaching a 2011 consent decree by using phone numbers and email addresses that users
Rothwell Figg attorneys Martin M. Zoltick and Jenny L. Colgate published a chapter titled “Privacy, Data Protection, and Cybersecurity: A State-Law Analysis” in the International Comparative Legal Guide to: Data Protection 2020, published by Global Legal Group Ltd.
While some countries have enacted comprehensive privacy and data protection laws, like the EU’s General Data Protection
Today the U.S. Supreme Court found in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc. that the federal debt collection exemption to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s general prohibition on autodialed calls violates the First Amendment. The Supreme Court held that the exemption was a content-based restriction on speech because it favors speech made
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect on January 1, 2020, and enforcement begins tomorrow, July 1, 2020. Is your privacy policy compliant? Here are a few quick questions that may help you determine the answer –
Articles summarizing CCPA often state that it applies to for-profit businesses that do business in California that satisfy certain criteria, and they fail to ever mention that CCPA does apply to some non-profits.
The CCPA defines “business” as “a sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, association, or other legal entity that is organized
In the United States, transparency is the name of the game in privacy law. (This is in contrast to the GDPR, which is focused on creating a “privacy by design” legal framework.) Consistent with this trend with U.S. privacy laws is New York’s Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act (POST Act), which is expected to