Christopher Brown reports: Capital One Financial Corp. is facing a proposed class action alleging the financial giant disclosed the personal and financial information of millions of consumers to Meta Platforms Inc., Google LLC, Microsoft Corp., and other third parties without their consent in violation of state and federal privacy laws. Vishal Shah and three other named plaintiffs accused Capital…
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Minnesota and Rhode Island Pass Comprehensive Privacy Legislation
Lindsey Tonsager, Conor Kane, and Olivia Vega of Covington and Burling write: Minnesota and Rhode Island are the latest states to pass comprehensive privacy legislation, joining a number of states who have enacted similar laws. This blog post summarizes the statutes’ key takeaways. Minnesota On May 19, 2024, the Minnesota legislature passed HF 4757, an omnibus…
Backyard Privacy in the Age of Drones
Hannah Zhao writes: Police departments and law enforcement agencies are increasingly collecting personal information using drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles. In addition to high-resolution photographic and video cameras, police drones may be equipped with myriad spying payloads, such as live-video transmitters, thermal imaging, heat sensors, mapping technology, automated license plate readers, cell site…
National Public Data’s response to an opt-out request
Last night, DataBreaches received an alert from Experian Identity Works that my Social Security number had shown up in its dark web surveillance. There were three entries where it had shown up last week. All three related to the massive National Public Data breach and leak. But looking at the three entries, I noted that…