Professor and privacy law scholar Dan Solove has a new article that he is sharing via SSRN, where it can be downloaded for free. The article is called, “The Limitations of Privacy Rights.” Here is the abstract: Individual privacy rights are often at the heart of information privacy and data protection laws. The most comprehensive…
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Attorneys General to Increase Enforcement Efforts on “Dark Patterns”
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On January 24, 2022, a group of state attorneys general (Indiana, Texas, D.C. and Washington) (the “State AGs”) announced their commitment to ramp up enforcement work on “dark patterns” that are used to ascertain consumers’ location data. The State AGs created a plan to initiate lawsuits alleging that consumers of certain online services…
Massachusetts high court expands social media privacy rights
Thomas F. Harrison reports: A man who was careless with his privacy settings and accepted an anonymous “friend request” from someone who turned out to be an undercover cop became the unlikely catalyst Monday for a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision that expands the privacy rights of social media users. Writing for the unanimous court,…
I.R.S. to End Use of Facial Recognition for Identity Verification
Alan Rappeport reports: The Internal Revenue Service plans to stop using facial recognition software to identify taxpayers accessing their accounts on the agency’s website amid concerns over privacy and data security. The decision comes as the I.R.S. is coping with a daunting tax season, faced with backlogs of old tax returns, staffing shortages and additional…