From Papers, Please! Last December we called attention to plans by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to require mug shots of all travelers entering or leaving the US by air or sea, including US citizens. Within days, CBP issued a press release falsely accusing us of incorrectly reporting the official CBP notice of its plans, and saying that it…
Category: Laws
Millions of Facebook users pass on $650 million privacy jackpot
Bloomberg reports: Facebook Inc. will be making payouts to only about a quarter of the 6 million Illinois residents eligible for the biggest consumer privacy settlement in U.S. history. Based on a tally filed in court after Monday’s claims deadline, some 1.57 million people will probably pocket more than $300 each — after about a…
TCPA Is Unenforceable Since 2015 – Federal Courts in Louisiana and Ohio Rule
Jason C. Gavejian and Maya Atrakchi of JacksonLewis write: In late September, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana issued a first of its kind ruling regarding the Telephone Consumer Privacy Act (“TCPA”). The court held that TCPA provision, 47 U.S.C. § 227(b)(1)(A)(iii) – which prohibits calls (and messages) made using an…
Oops! The backup restored GDPR right to be forgotten details
Chris Mellor writes: Remember GDPR? Of course you do. The GDPR directive gives individuals the right to be forgotten and requires EU and UK companies in certain instances to erase all personal data per a customer’s request. But this is problematic when details are contained inside a non-searchable database backup file. At first sight the individual…