On June 1, 2020, the California Attorney General submitted the final text of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations to the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) for approval, which are substantially the same as the draft regulations released on March 11, 2020. Despite the ongoing development of the regulations, the CCPA took effect
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
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
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
Right now, the world wrestles with a colossal viral outbreak. In response to the crisis, hundreds of millions of people are staying home to reduce their personal risks and to flatten the curve for society overall.
From this mass sheltering, businesses face inverted demand curves that appear so steep and transformative that they are facing
The number of actions to enforce the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) against a wide range of companies continues to rise. Germany, a country where privacy enjoys strong legal protection, is establishing itself as a favorite jurisdiction for enforcement of the GDPR. And, not surprisingly, Facebook is one of the companies in the
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
Christopher A. Ott, CIPP/US, former Supervisory Counterintelligence and Cyber Counsel to the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and most recently, a partner in private practice at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP advising clients on litigation and business strategy when facing data and privacy issues, has joined Rothwell Figg’s Privacy, Data
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