Privacy News & Issues
Douglas MacMillan, David Ovalle and Aaron Schaffer report: After two men brutally assaulted a security guard on a desolate train platform on the outskirts of St. Louis, county transit police detective Matthew Shute struggled to identify the culprits. He studied grainy surveillance videos, canvassed homeless shelters and repeatedly called the victim of the attack, who…
Hunton Andrews Kurth points us to a resource on New Jersey data privacy law: On January 6, 2025, the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs Cyber Fraud Unit published a set of frequently asked questions and answers (“FAQs”) on the New Jersey Data Privacy Law (“NJDPL”). The FAQs are intended for the convenience of business that may be subject to…
[Joint Press Release, January 12, 2025] The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC – the Republic of Korea) and the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA – California, the United States of America) signed a declaration of cooperation on January 10th 2025, emphasizing their shared commitment to safeguarding the privacy and personal information of their citizens and…
Suzanne Smalley reports: Texas’ attorney general is suing the insurance giant Allstate and its subsidiary Arity for allegedly illegally collecting, using and selling cell phone location and movement data belonging to more than 45 million Americans without their knowledge. Allstate harvested trillions of miles of that data from Americans’ cellphones through “secretly embedded” software Arity…