IPilogue

JUNE 1, 2022

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, academic discussions indicated that artificial intelligence (AI) would signify the fourth industrial revolution with tangible economic benefits and potential privacy concerns. Nowadays, privacy concerns exceed personal information protection. . Ensures human monitoring. . California: Assembly Bill No.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) is warning shoppers about smart toys this holiday season. In its article , “Consumer watchdog: ‘Smart toys’ put kids’ privacy at risk,” PIRG outlines the privacy risks associated with smart toys. They are long and detailed, boring, and full of legalese.

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JUNE 15, 2023

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte has signed SB 351, the Genetic Information Privacy Act (GINA), which “requires an entity to provide consumer information regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of genetic data; providing for limitations and exclusions; providing for enforcement authority; and providing definitions.”

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It’s that time of year again when we start to think about holiday gifts and Black Friday shopping. So as any good privacy pro knows, the Mozilla *privacy not included guide is the place to go to learn about the “creepiness” of the latest toy or gift that you are looking to buy.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 7, 2022

20-303 (Office of Attorney General March 10, 2022): “internally generated inferences that a business holds about a consumer are personal information within the meaning of the CCPA, and must be disclosed to the consumer on request. ” * Bloomberg : Global Privacy Control Popularity Grows as Legal Status Up in Air.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CDPA), which became effective on July 1, 2023, provides Connecticut residents with certain rights over their personal information and establishes responsibilities and privacy protection standards for businesses that process personal information.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 13, 2021

The world of competitive video gaming implicates a complicated patchwork of privacy laws, and esports companies need to keep in mind some key issues when assessing privacy and cybersecurity obligations. Below are some of the key questions to think through to assess issues related to data use (privacy) and cybersecurity in esports.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 23, 2021

I began to wonder about California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) enforcement actions over the past year as this was something that we speculated about not that long ago. The most common violation on the list is that a company’s privacy policy was non-compliant with CCPA requirements.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Digital policy has been the source of seemingly never-ending frustration for years in Canada. The last proposal was so bad that many will rightly express skepticism about the bill. But details matter and how the government attempts to strike the balance between safety, privacy, and expression will require careful examination.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 28, 2021

data privacy : what businesses NEED TO know. Keeping pace with the state of data privacy and data privacy regulations is becoming a pressing responsibility for businesses in the digital age. Data privacy legislation is on the rise, with jurisdictions adopting stricter protective measures on a national and global front.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 5, 2022

Readers of this blog know how I feel about apps and the data they collect, use and disclose when it comes to privacy. Although they are supposed to tell you in their privacy policy what data they are collecting, few people actually read the privacy policy to understand how their data are being collected, used and disclosed.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2023

Recently, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced its new initiative in investigating the data privacy practices of connected vehicle (CV) manufacturers and the related technologies. Consider whether your privacy policy has been updated for CCPA compliance. the precise geolocation of the CV).

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Anyone who uses the internet today should already be aware that privacy is all but non-existent. While the privacy-invading aspects of the wider internet are broadly discussed, much less attention is given to the companies that allow us to get online in the first place.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 24, 2023

State privacy laws are changing rapidly in the U.S. We anticipate that more state legislatures will continue to enact privacy laws to protect consumers due to the absence of a federal privacy law. The Oregon Consumer Privacy Act will go into effect on July 1, 2024. The law will go into effect on January 1, 2025.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The complaint, filed on January 20, 2023, alleges that State Farm illegally submitted personal and confidential information about Plaintiffs’ insurance claims, including medical treatment information, to Verisk / ISO for inclusion in an immense database it maintains. Privacy is the control over knowledge about oneself.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 9, 2024

There is unquestionably a need to address AI policy, but this approach appears to paper over hard questions about AI governance and regulation. Meanwhile, the $300 million for AI startups and adoption has the feel of the government’s failed $4 billion Digital Adoption Program with vague policy objectives and similar doubts about need.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 22, 2021

After reading my colleague’s post on the priest who resigned from his high-profile position after his location was tied to Grindr, I thought it would be useful to remind readers to think about that privacy setting a bit more. Delete any apps that you are not comfortable with the Privacy Policies.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 19, 2023

I have enormous respect for the signatories of the open letter and share their concern about the need to develop an AI regulatory framework that “ balances the protection of Canadians and the imperative for innovation.” Bill C-27 is really three bills in one: major privacy reform, the creation of a new privacy tribunal, and AI regulation.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 5, 2021

Dustin Marlan, The Dystopian Right of Publicity Privacy problems (surveillance) are often analogized to the dystopia of 1984; ROP problems stemming from infinite transferablility can be analogized to Brave New World (1932). There are only about 18 celebrity personality cases/year. This is relevant to the extent that everyone has a ROP.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Last week, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) released updated California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) draft regulations and a summary of the changes. Instead, companies can offer consumers choices about the cookies and other tracking technology used on their website, which offers greater transparency for the consumer.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

It further alleged that the company “did not have any policies in place to remove sensitive locations from the raw location data it sold.putting consumers’ sensitive personal information at risk.” When you turn location services on, all of those apps are tracking your specific location.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Canadian digital law and policy in 2023 was marked by so many legislative battles that you needed a scorecard to keep track: Bill C-11 on online streaming, Bill C-18 on online news, and Bill C-27 on privacy and AI were the headliners, but there were notable developments on content regulation, competition, and a digital services tax.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Canadian digital law and policy in 2022 was marked by legislative battles over Bills C-11 and C-18, the Rogers outage, stalled privacy and AI reform, copyright term extension, and a growing trade battle with the U.S. over Canadian policies. The podcast can be downloaded here , accessed on YouTube , and is embedded below.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 28, 2023

by guest blogger Jess Miers, Legal Advocacy Counsel at Chamber of Progress [Eric’s intro: last year I blogged about Minnesota’s flirtation with mandatory age verification. This year is a glaring reminder of the consequences of passing terrible Internet policy through state legislatures. Default Privacy Settings.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

More states, including Ohio, are working on comprehensive consumer privacy laws that could impact how companies share data. In our August 2021 Privacy and Security Roundup , we cover the nuances in the various legislation, more ransomware and supply chain attacks and news of a messaging app used as a Trojan horse by the FBI.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 10, 2022

There is a federal law, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), that requires app developers to obtain parental consent before collecting information from children under the age of 13. The law has been on the books for a long time, yet companies are not always in compliance with it. The problem?

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43(B)log

MARCH 28, 2024

Princeton insured Wonderland from 2016-2018 (with a broad exclusion for defamation, invasion of privacy, and various forms of advertising injury in the second year called the Exhibitions and Related Marketing Exclusion), and agreed to defend the club but reserved the right to deny insurance coverage. Princeton Excess & Surplus Lines Ins.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Notably, I had the opportunity to draft user manuals for the company’s product offering, as well as a privacy policy. Thus, at various points during the drafting process, I had to learn about new functionalities as they were added to the product offering and determine how best to incorporate these features into the manuals.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This is unfortunate because those bills can harbor ill-advised policy ideas. Despite its purported goal of helping children, the AADC delivers a “hidden” payload of several radical policy ideas that sailed through the legislature without proper scrutiny. Newsom ) is an example of such a bill. Normalizing face scans.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 13, 2022

I have written about genetic testing kits before , but this subject matter is worth repeating. Consumer Reports recently came out with a study led by its Digital Lab experts entitled “The Privacy Problems of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing” which prompted me to revisit this as a Privacy Tip.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 4, 2022

First off today, Michael Kan at PC Magazine reports that India is enacting a new policy that, if enforced, would require virtual private network (VPN) providers to collect, store and turn over user data. According to the Indian government, the new policy takes effect June 27. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 3: AnimeKisa.tv

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AUGUST 26, 2021

Some are more aggressive than others, such as New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas, who recently sued Rovio Entertainment, the maker of Angry Birds, alleging that Rovio violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting data on players under the age of 13 and disclosing it to advertisers.

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43(B)log

APRIL 15, 2024

Although she alleged violations of the federal and Minnesota wiretap statutes and the Minnesota health records statute (which all survived the motion to dismiss), I’ll focus on claims under the Minnesota consumer fraud statute, the Minnesota deceptive trade practices statute, and common law claims of invasion of privacy and unjust enrichment.

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JULY 13, 2021

Evidently, controlling and exploiting personal music data is valuable; however, trends in global privacy law relating to personal data protection and personal privacy rights threaten to reduce widespread accessibility to this resource. The GDPR and the CCPA’s stance on privacy law impacts every aspect of this process.

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Michael Geist

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Bill C-27, the government’s privacy and artificial intelligence bill is slowly making its way through the Parliamentary process. One of the emerging issues has been the mounting opposition to the AI portion of the bill, including a recent NDP motion to divide the bill for voting purposes, separating the privacy and AI portions.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 1, 2024

While accessing blocked websites and communicating in relative privacy is now fairly common, the government would like sites carrying “illegal information” to remain inaccessible. As a result, 167 unregistered VPN providers and 200 email providers were blocked according to a report last October.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Graduate School at Cornell held an inquiry back in August, which addressed the allegations about some lines in the preface to my dissertation and concluded there was no ill intent on my part there. Cornell Dean’s comment and Cornell’s official policies. As such, the school opted to take no further action in this matter.

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