Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On July 24, 2022, the Financial Express published an article on Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the Indian Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, noting that the introduction of the Indian Data Protection Bill (the “Bill”) before Parliament will be delayed by a few months. The Bill was expected to be tabled during the…
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Who Is Collecting Data from Your Car?
A firehose of sensitive data from your vehicle is flowing to a group of companies you’ve probably never heard of By: Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng Today’s cars are akin to smartphones, with apps connected to the internet that collect huge amounts of data, some of which is highly personal. Most drivers have no idea…
Police Are Using Newborn Genetic Screening to Search for Suspects, Threatening Privacy and Public Health
Crystal Grant writes: Nearly every baby born in the U.S. has blood drawn in the immediate hours after their birth, allowing the baby to be tested for a panel of potentially life-threatening inherited disorders. This is a vital public health program, enabling early treatment of newborns with genetic disorders; for them, it can be the…
After Huge Illuminate Data Breach, Ed Tech’s ‘Student Privacy Pledge’ Under Fire
Mark Keierleber writes: A few months after education leaders at America’s largest school district announced that a technology vendor had exposed sensitive student information in a massive data breach, the company at fault — Illuminate Education — was recognized with the software industry’s equivalent of the Oscars. Since that disclosure in New York City schools, the scope of…