Daniel Solove writes: These days, there seems to be a lot of energy around a federal comprehensive privacy law in the United States. When the US Congress started passing privacy laws in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, it eschewed the route of passing a comprehensive privacy law, opting instead for the sectoral approach — passing…
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Canadian Civil Liberties Association files lawsuit over Quayside project
The Canadian Press reports: The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) has launched a lawsuit against all three levels of government involved in a bid to bring a high-tech neighbourhood to Toronto’s downtown core. Federal, provincial and municipal governments are all named in the notice of application filed by the civil rights and freedoms group, which…
China’s Ministry of Public Security Issues New Personal Information Protection Guideline
Yan Luo, Zhijing Yu and Nicholas Shepherd of Covington & Burling write: On April 19, 2019, China’s Ministry of Public Security (“MPS”) released the final version of its Guideline for Internet Personal Information Security Protection (互联网个人信息安全保护指南) (the “Guideline”). A previous version of the Guideline was released for public comments on November 30, 2018. Under China’s…
AI diagnoses PTSD by analyzing veterans’ voices
Dave Pearson reports: Working with SRI International, the California tech lab that gave the world Siri, mental health specialists at NYU Langone have developed an AI-based tool that uses voice analysis to diagnose posttraumatic stress disorder—potentially via telemedicine. Senior study author Charles Marmar, MD, and co-authors described their work in a study published online April 22…