Pandemic contact tracing is an important tool. Operating such a tool while respecting personal privacy rights can be tricky. Just ask the state governments of North Dakota and South Dakota. The governors of the Dakotas have urged usage of a locally-developed application to trace coronavirus exposure. Operators of […]
Article 14 of Pakistan’s Constitution provides “[t]he dignity of man and, subject to law, the privacy of home, shall be inviolable.” On April 9, 2020 Pakistan’s Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication released its fourth draft of the Personal Data Protection Bill 2020 (“PDPB”). The public consultation period […]
The United States Senate, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, conducted a hearing on “Enlisting Big Data in the Fight Against Coronavirus.” On April 30, 2020, the Republicans on the committee, Wicker, Thune, Moran, and Blackburn, proposed legislation to protect the privacy of consumers’ personal health information, proximity […]
On April 8th, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released a statement warning of cybercriminal and advanced persistent threat groups (APT) exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic. The statement provided that the surge […]
Oscar Wilde was known for saying “Everything in moderation, including moderation.” For a period of time, we were only confronted with the scary aspects of “Big Data.” Think The Great Hack and the testy congressional hearings that we watched. But the viral pandemic has thrown privacy absolutism into […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has ushered calls for extraordinary surveillance methods. The Israeli government, for example, approved a proposal to allow the Shin Bet security service to perform mass surveillance on Israelis’ phones without requiring a court order to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. But while this crisis may […]
Emergence of Zoom The Coronavirus has forced millions of people around the world to work from home, and adapt to a professional and social culture that does not permit in-person interaction. As a result, many have turned to Zoom’s videoconferencing platform for virtual meetings, e-classrooms, virtual happy hours, […]
A privacy bill was signed into law in Maine last year and is set to go into effect in July. That is—unless a group of ISP trade associations has something to say about it. The new law would regulate the use, disclosure, and sale of customer information by […]
On March 11th the California Attorney General’s office released the third draft of the regulations required to implement the California Consumer Privacy Act, lovingly known the world around as the CCPA. However unpopular versions 1 and 2 of the CCPA regulations might have been, at least there were […]
No, despite having exited the European Union the UK is not free of its GDPR obligations. However, businesses holding EU data in the UK will need to keep a watchful eye on negotiations between the EU and its breakaway state. If the UK is not deemed “adequate” for […]
