Lulu Ramadan reports: This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Seattle Times. A King County judge ruled last week that a private special education school that has been the subject of a recent Seattle Times and ProPublica investigation has to comply with public information laws and release records to…
Category: Laws
Bill would force period tracking apps to follow privacy laws
The AP reports: When the Supreme Court last June stripped away constitutional protections for abortion, concerns grew over the use of period tracking apps because they aren’t protected by federal privacy laws. Privacy experts have said they fear pregnancies could be surveilled and the data shared with police or sold to vigilantes. Some Washington state lawmakers want to…
Sen. Brown’s bill would make Indiana 6th state with data privacy law
Brett Stover reports: State Sen. Liz Brown might not have been the lawmaker most likely to introduce a major data privacy bill. In fact, the Fort Wayne Republican even called herself “the least tech person” during an interview last week. But Brown’s consumer data privacy proposal, Senate Bill 5, isn’t just one of the hundreds of…
Nothing Is Really Private, Until It Is Required to Be: Mississippi Legislature Proposes “Biometric Identifiers Privacy Act” to Protect Individual’s Personal Information
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP writes: Over the past few decades, technology has taken a fascinating turn. One can use a retinal scan to expedite the airport security process. Need to clock in for work? This can be done with the scan of a finger. We even have the convenience of unlocking our iPhones with…