Frank Hersey reports: The United Nations Human Rights Committee has found that the legislation which Mauritius passed in 2013 for its biometric smart ID cards does not provide sufficient guarantees for securely protecting the biometrics of cardholders and therefore violates citizens’ privacy rights, according to the Committee’s release. The Committee stated that Mauritius did not provide enough information…
Category: Laws
House Passes the Consumer Protection and Recovery Act
From EPIC.org: The House of Representatives passed the Consumer Protection and Recovery Act (H.R. 2668) Tuesday on a 221-205 vote. The bill explicitly authorizes the Federal Trade Commission to seek monetary relief for injured consumers in federal court and to require bad actors to return money obtained through illegal actions. The amendment to the FTC…
Covid 19: Italy’s Privacy Guarantor “warns” the Sicily Region
The Guarantor for the protection of personal data has warned the Region of Sicily and all the subjects involved (provincial health companies, employers, competent doctors) that the processing of personal data carried out in implementation of the ordinance n. 75 of 7 July 2021 of the President of the Sicily Region, in the absence of corrective…
The Past, Present and Future of US Privacy Law
From WilmerHale: In this article published by the Seton Hall Law Review (Vol. 51: Iss. 5, Article 5), Kirk Nahra discusses the history of privacy law, the current privacy structure, and what to expect for the future. Excerpt: Modern United States privacy law is roughly twenty years old. Even though still in its relative infancy, privacy law is…