Keypoint: This week Florida’s two bills continued to progress, the Washington Privacy Act failed to pass out of the House at the deadline (but the bill sponsor says it is still alive), new bills were introduced in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, and Maryland’s bill died. David Strauss of Husch Blackwell LLP writes:c Below is our…
Category: Laws
Feds investigating Pasco schools giving student data to sheriff
Kathleen McGrory and Natalie Weber report: The U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into whether the Pasco school district broke federal law by sharing private student information with the Pasco Sheriff’s Office. The Tampa Bay Times reported in November that the school district shared information on student grades, discipline and attendance with the Sheriff’s Office,…
IT: Facial recognition: Sari Real Time does not comply with the privacy policy
The opinion of the Guarantor for the protection of personal data on the use of the Sari Real Time system by the Ministry of the Interior is not favorable . The system, in addition to being without a legal basis that legitimizes the automated processing of biometric data for facial recognition for security purposes, would create a form of indiscriminate…
Big Tech Is Pushing States to Pass Privacy Laws, and Yes, You Should Be Suspicious
Todd Feathers reports: Concerned about growing momentum behind efforts to regulate the commercial use of personal data, Big Tech has begun seeding watered-down “privacy” legislation in states with the goal of preempting greater protections, experts say. The swift passage in March of a consumer data privacy law in Virginia, which Protocol reported was originally authored by Amazon with…