Lisa Ellingson and Nadeem Schwen of Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A. write: Minnesota is now the latest state to take strides towards enacting an omnibus consumer data privacy law. On February 22, 2021, the “Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act” was introduced as HF 1492 by Rep. Steve Elkins (DFL) and Rep. Mohamud Noor (DFL) in the Minnesota House…
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Twitter’s Jack Dorsey sued by shareholder; allegedly disregarded user privacy to benefit Square
Alexis Keenan reports: Twitter (TWTR) CEO Jack Dorsey was sued on Monday by a shareholder claiming he breached his fiduciary duties to the social media company by giving advertisers broad access to users’ private data. The shareholder, suing on behalf of Twitter, alleges that the other company Dorsey heads, payments company Square (SQ), “benefitted wildly from this disregard…
EPIC Obtains Number of Location Data Requests from U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware
From the good folks at EPIC.org: The Department of Justice has, after more than three years, finally begun to respond to EPIC’s request for cell phone surveillance orders issued by federal prosecutors. EPIC first requested copies of the orders in 2017 and then filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department in 2018 when the agency failed to…
Facebook Starts Blocking Sensitive Medical Data Shared by Apps Over Privacy Concerns
AFP reports: Facebook has started blocking sensitive health information that third-party apps had been sharing with the social network in violation of its own rules, said New York officials who investigated the situation. Data fed into a Facebook analytics tool by app makers included medical diagnoses and whether users were pregnant, according to a report shared by New York…