Sherrie Peif reports: More than 20 charter schools across the state recently presented a petition to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) requesting that it stop collecting and using private information of school children to publicize youth vaccination rates on its website. Diana Herrero, deputy director of the division of disease control…
Category: Laws
California Assembly Proposes Data Privacy Law for Workers
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: As reported in the Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives Blog: Assembly Bill 1651, or the Workplace Technology Accountability Act, a new bill proposed by California Assembly Member Ash Kalra, would regulate employers and their vendors regarding the use of employee data. Under the bill, data is defined as “any information that identifies,…
Court of Justice of the EU Greenlights GDPR Collective Claims Without a Mandate
Dan Cooper, Kristof Van Quathem, and Anna Oberschelp de Meneses of Covington and Burling write: On April 28, 2022, the Court of Justice of the EU (“CJEU”) decided that consumer protection associations may bring collective claims without a mandate from the affected consumers, including for violations of the GDPR, relying on national consumer law provisions. The words…
SLAPPs: A real problem or a defendant’s wildcard? – Iain Wilson
Iain Wilson writes: In our blog In defence of privacy and the judiciary we discussed how the press had misreported the decision in HRH the Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 1810 and, with the assistance of the government, had weaponised that misreporting to lobby for the reform of privacy law. We are now seeing a…