Seen on Covington & Burling’s Inside Privacy: Earlier this month, Maine’s legislature enacted a new statute granting broad privacy rights to internet users in the state. Hailed as “the strictest consumer privacy protections in the nation,” the statute places among the toughest burdens on regulated entities to protect the data of their consumers. The statute…
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Supreme Court Allows Warrantless Blood Draws of Unconscious Drivers
Scott Shackford reports: The Supreme Court ruled today that exigent circumstances allow police to draw blood from an unconscious driver without his permission and without a warrant if the police suspect that the driver is under the influence of alcohol. Today’s decision in Mitchell v. Wisconsin comes just three years after the Court ruled that…
Google and the University of Chicago Are Sued Over Data Sharing
Daisuke Wakabayashi reports: When the University of Chicago Medical Center announced a partnership to share patient data with Google in 2017, the alliance was promoted as a way to unlock information trapped in electronic health records and improve predictive analysis in medicine. On Wednesday, the University of Chicago, the medical center and Google were sued…
French consumer group sues Google for data privacy breach
RFI reports: A French consumer group said Wednesday it is suing tech company Google for illegally farming personal data in breach of EU data privacy laws. The class action suit was filed to “end the insidious exploitation of users’ personal data, particularly those using Android devices with a Google account, and compensate them for up…