Eve Kessler reports: Advocates are cheering a first-in-the-nation New York bill that would mandate speed-limiting technology in new cars and would limit large passenger vehicles that have blind spots that endanger pedestrians and other vulnerable road users. But does New York even have the authority to regulate cars this way? And would the law be doomed to…
Category: Laws
Iranian authorities plan to use facial recognition to enforce new hijab law
Weronika Strzyżyńska reports: The Iranian government is planning to use facial recognition technology on public transport to identify women who are not complying with a strict new law on wearing the hijab, as the regime continues its increasingly punitive crackdown on women’s dress. The secretary of Iran’s Headquarters for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice, Mohammad…
Internet service providers drop challenge of privacy law
Patrick Whittle reports: One of the strictest internet privacy laws in the United States has withstood a legal challenge, as a group of telecommunication providers has dropped its bid to overturn the Maine standard. Maine created one of the toughest rules in the nation for internet service providers in 2020 when it began enforcing an…
Employers Get Ready – CCPA Employee and B2B Exemptions End, Expanded Privacy Compliance Begins in 2023
Joseph J. Lazzarotti, Jason C. Gavejian, Sean Paisan & Rob Yang of JacksonLewis write: For the past few years, California’s comprehensive privacy law known as the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) included an important partial exemption for employees, applicants, and independent contractors (collectively, “workforce members”). The California Privacy Rights Act, which amended the CCPA, extended the exemption…