Libbie Canter, Lindsey Tonsager and Alexandra Scott of Covington and Burling write: While some state legislators are still putting away their holiday decorations, New Hampshire legislators introduced new data privacy legislation, New Hampshire House Bill 1680. The legislation is similar to the California Consumer Privacy Act (which we’ve written extensively about before, including here and here). It grants consumers…
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Washington Schools’ Mental Health Survey Puts Student Gender and Sexuality Data at Risk
There is a lot of buzz in my Twitter timeline — mostly angry — over something in Washington State. David Gershgorn reported: In an effort to curb substance abuse and flag student mental health issues, in 2018, Washington state’s King County started giving students an unusual electronic survey. The Check Yourself screener, which is conducted…
Belgian Supervisory Authority Imposes Cookie Fine
Kristof Van Quathem of Covington & Burling writes: On December 17, 2019, the Belgian Supervisory Authority (“SA”) imposed a fine of € 15,000 on an SME operating a legal information website that welcomes approximately 35,000 unique visitors a month. Interestingly, in the apparent absence of any actual complaints submitted to the SA, it carried out…
Drivers’ license data sold to businesses, given to Feds
Papers, Please! writes: As we start the year of the once-a-decade US Census, it’s an appropriate time to start looking at some of the ways and the purposes for which data — including drivers license data — is used and shared by the Bureau of the Census. State agencies that issue drivers’ licenses want us…