Last week, the Republican members of the Senate Commerce Committee, including the chair of the committee, Roger Wicker, introduced the Setting an American Framework to Ensure Data Access, Transparency, and Accountability Act (“the Safe Data Act”). Last November, Senator Wicker had a working draft called the United States […]
Most people have a warped and deeply unrealistic understanding of data security. There is no such thing as absolute security. For a thing to have value, you must be able to access the value – in effect, to use it. In order to use it, you must be […]
Will the EU finally deny the right to transfer any personal data from its shores to the United States? Its privacy decisions have been inching closer to this determination for years, and an Irish case against Facebook may tip the balance. For fifteen years, personal data being sent […]
When will artificial intelligence develop aspirations? When will a robot yearn to have its own apartment? When will an AI that invented technology want to re-invest its earnings into better marketing for its product? When will an AI providing value to a company desire the pay and benefits […]
Cities have taken the lead when it comes to regulating facial recognition technology. Currently, there is no federal regulation on this kind of technology, nor any policy in place to govern the use of the data obtained through facial recognition. Three cities in California (San Francisco, Oakland, and […]
Last week the California legislature passed an important first step in protecting the American public from itself. The Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA) helps fill a gap in U.S. healthcare privacy that most people don’t know exists. The Act places obligations on consumer companies that collect DNA samples […]
The California legislature recently passed a series of privacy-related bills that await Governor Gavin Newsom’s signature. Governor Newsom has until September 30th to sign these bills into law. The legislature in Sacramento voted to extend the employee and business-to-business (“B2B”) exemptions from the definition of “Consumer” in the […]
With consumers reluctant to use cash in the COVID-19 pandemic, a newer form of purchase financing has gained traction with retailers and payment providers. Purchasers are finding alternatives to building significant credit card debt, paying cash or pulling directly from existing accounts. Paypal has entered the ‘Point of […]
I am an advocate of providing law enforcement officers the newest technology to do their jobs well. If there is a recording of an event, the police should be able to use it. If a stingray can capture cell phone conversation, with appropriate procedural limitation, an officer should […]
Twitter is likely to suffer significant fines in the EU for its handling of a data incident, but regulators are conflicted about their response. In late 2018, Twitter experienced a data breach involving an exploitation of a system vulnerability, and a separate breach in early 2019 in which […]
