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MARCH 31, 2024

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

States are expected to continue adding onto the emerging consumer privacy law patchwork in 2022, while regulators in the U.S. and Europe will keep pressure on companies to protect users' data and to boost their cybersecurity to combat a growing scourge of ransomware attacks.

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JULY 29, 2022

Privacy legislation is set to be the focal point for both businesses and consumer advocates for the remainder of 2022, with Congress mounting its strongest push yet to enact a nationwide standard and five state laws ready to go live next year if those efforts fall short.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

An Illinois federal judge granted a win to an insurer in a coverage dispute with a condiment company over biometric privacy litigation, changing course Tuesday in response to a state appeals decision concerning an identical policy exclusion.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Virginia filed two lawsuits Thursday against the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) on behalf of two transgender students challenging the department’s 2023 model policies.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s mandate letters to his cabinet fell under an exemption of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) on Friday.

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JURIST

JULY 27, 2021

violated the privacy of an estimated 1.2 Information and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk stated Friday that Uber breached the Privacy Act by not taking reasonable steps to protect the personal information of customers and drivers from a cyber attack that occurred in a two-month period in late 2016.

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MARCH 8, 2024

Overview The Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Education recently adopted a policy requiring school officials to notify parents if a student requests to use a different name or pronoun than is on their birth certificate — drawing California into the national battle over transgender rights in education.[1] 2] He’s right.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The court found that the regulation that enables these searches is restrictive enough to protect the privacy concerns of the plaintiffs. Judge Stephen Lindley dissented from the majority, arguing that the legislature did not authorize the commission to adopt “important policy-laden decisions of this nature.”

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Italy’s administrative authority on personal data protection, Garante Privacy, on Friday asked its Irish counterpart, the Irish Data Protection Commission (Irish DPC), to solicit answers from Facebook to a series of questions on the privacy implications of its new smart glasses before the company markets them on the Italian market.

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MARCH 14, 2024

It aims to mitigate the risks associated with AI, while ensuring that AI systems uphold privacy, human dignity and fundamental rights. The act is also part of a set of policy objectives to uniformly foster trustworthy AI development within the EU, together with the AI innovation package and the Coordinated Plan on AI.

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JURIST

AUGUST 15, 2023

Although Chopra only specified two actions, he indicated that the CFPB plans to take further action after additional policy research. China and the EU both have stricter data privacy regulations than the US, which has raised questions about US policy and led to some changes to accommodate US trade with the EU.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 19, 2023

An Illinois appellate court ruled Tuesday that two insurers are not responsible for part of a $19 million settlement in underlying biometric privacy litigation based on a broad violation-of-law policy exclusion, saying the Seventh Circuit's recent analysis of nearly identical language is not "an accurate reflection of Illinois law."

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The unredacted complaint alleges that Meta received millions of complaints that accounts were being run or owned by users under 13, violating Meta’s policies and the FTC rules. This is not the first time Meta has been mired in controversy for its use of private user data and platform policy management and moderation.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Melissa Andrews was a paralegal for around 15 years and is now working in health care compliance and privacy. For the past three years, she’s been serving as a Virtual Chief Compliance Officer and Virtual Chief Privacy Officer at Clearwater Security. So how does that lead to a privacy and compliance officer? LEARN MORE Q.

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LLRX

JUNE 30, 2023

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. OpenAI's Privacy Policy Explained. and Does ChatGPT Save My Data?

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Law 360

JULY 27, 2023

A Chicago-area supermarket's insurer must defend it in a proposed class action alleging it violated employees' biometric privacy rights, an Illinois federal court ruled Thursday, finding three separate exclusions in the supermarket's policies contained no "unifying thread" limiting their broadness.

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JURIST

JANUARY 19, 2023

Curley attributed the leak to the “expansion of the ability to work from home, as well as gaps in the Court’s security policies.” The Supreme Court will adjust their privacy policies and security measures in order to prevent another leak in the future.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Attorney General’s Office seeks to understand how the facial network will affect citizens’ rights to privacy and liberty. ” He added: “This practice is unscrupulous, unethical, and contrary to public policy. I will continue to fight for the privacy of Vermonters, particularly our most vulnerable.”

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 8, 2022

House-passed defense policy bill”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has a report that begins, “Tucked into the 4,000-plus page annual defense policy bill that cleared the U.S. House-passed defense policy bill” appeared first on How Appealing. “Judicial security measure included in U.S.

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JURIST

APRIL 7, 2024

New York City settled a class-action lawsuit on Thursday that was brought by two Muslim women against the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) policy for removing their head coverings for arrest photos. In the $17.5

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Law 360

MARCH 20, 2024

Following the Federal Trade Commission's recent guidance about the use of customer data to train artificial intelligence models, companies should carefully think through their terms of service and privacy policies and be cautious when changing them to permit new uses of previously collected data, says James Gatto at Sheppard Mullin.

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JURIST

JULY 6, 2022

US Senate Intelligence Committee members Tuesday called for the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate social media platform TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance for invading the privacy of its users. TikTok has previously faced legal challenges in other countries for sharing user data.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Additionally, Google must maintain a webpage that discloses its location tracking practices and policies and provide compliance reports to the California Office of the Attorney General. I want to thank my Consumer Protection Section for their work on this matter and for securing important privacy safeguards on behalf of all Californians.

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MARCH 5, 2024

A Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday refused to revive a proposed class action alleging that Google's "Lockbox" program secretly collected information about Android owners' non-Google app use, saying Google clearly disclosed in its privacy policy that it tracks activity in third-party apps.

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MAY 23, 2022

According to the complaint, the Cambridge Analytica Facebook data breach was the “largest consumer privacy scandal” in US history. ” Further, Zuckerberg publicly took “personal responsibility for Facebook’s failures leading up to the Cambridge Analytica incident as well.”

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APRIL 11, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission is actively considering ways to "update" its privacy and data security enforcement strategy, including by looking into establishing new commercial surveillance rules and scrapping companies' reliance on "outdated and inefficient" privacy policies to justify their data practices, the agency's chair said Monday.

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OCTOBER 23, 2021

Although many ISP companies provided privacy protections and promised not to sell consumers’ personal data, they allowed this data to be “used, transferred and monetised” by third parties. The Chair Lina Khan said the report highlights fundamental questions around conditioning the use of essential technologies.

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LLRX

AUGUST 12, 2023

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Proton Technologies is best known for privacy-focused software such as secure email platform ProtonMail and private network ProtonVPN. But as a result of the sudden policy change, the company was forced to surrender IP addresses of climate activists, leading to several arrests by the French authorities.

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JULY 30, 2021

More states are expected to add their own consumer privacy protections to the books in the coming months, while federal regulators are likely to spend the remainder of 2021 stepping up their scrutiny of Big Tech and pushing to clamp down on a recent scourge of ransomware attacks.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

” The statement alleged that the police have conducted arbitrary arrests and illegal search and seizures, at times televising these actions, violating the right to privacy and the presumption of innocence. ” The post Sri Lanka anti-drug operation to continue amid human rights concerns appeared first on JURIST - News.

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A California privacy law set to go into effect in 2024 will reshape how children and teens use the Internet, Caitlin Dewey reports for Pew Trusts Stateline news service. Children and teens must have stricter privacy settings, which must be explained in child-friendly language. Several states have adopted the approach.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

The report established how mandatory pregnancy testing is a serious infringement of girls’ rights to privacy and autonomy. CRR also documented Tanzania’s practices in its publication “Forced Out: Mandatory Pregnancy Testing and the Expulsion of Pregnant Students in Tanzanian Schools.”

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JURIST

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The bill builds upon policy found in the online harms white papers. Notably, the bill will “impose duties on providers in relation to the protection of users’ rights to freedom of expression and privacy.” The Online Safety Bill aims to create enhanced protections surrounding internet safety and freedom of expression.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Here, a lawyer in Kabul offers his observations and perspective on recent developments in Taliban university policy. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding our correspondent’s name and institutional affiliation. The text has been only lightly edited to respect the author’s voice.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Dunkins , prior to gaining access to the Moravian College WiFi network, defendant Dunkins was required to sign the college’s Computing Resources Policy. ” The defense compared the facts in Dunkins’ case to that of Carpenter v.

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