Rachel R. Marmor and Emily Bruemmer of Davis Wright Tremaine write: Attempts by U.S. legislators to address the privacy issues raised by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have stalled. But for companies seeking to balance the goals of furthering public health and protecting individuals’ privacy, the European Union is providing policy guidance that may be exportable….
Category: Laws
Massachusetts Ballot Question Poses Privacy Concerns
Kathryn Rattigan of Robinson & Cole writes: Ballot Question 1 in Massachusetts, if passed in November, would require car manufacturers that sell cars equipped with telematics systems (i.e., a method of monitoring a vehicle by combining a GPS system with on-board diagnostics to record – and map – exactly where a car is and how…
Transferring Employee Data after EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Invalidated
Joseph J. Lazzarotti and Mary T. Costigan of JacksonLewis write: Businesses are now prohibited from transferring employee personal data from the European Economic Area (EEA) to the U.S. under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield program. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) declared the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield invalid in Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook…
Protect consumer privacy: Repeal GLBA’s privacy provisions
It is so hard to get privacy protections for consumers that you might think that if a law has privacy provisions, you’d want to keep them. Not necessarily, as Robert Gellman explains in an opinion piece that opened my eyes — and may open yours, too. How do the privacy protections in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act…