Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: Two bills dealing with processing COVID-19 data in California were referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee. Assembly Bill 660 prohibits data collected, received or prepared for purposes of contact tracing from being used or disclosed for any purpose other than facilitating contact tracing efforts. It also requires the data…
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Back to School Special: Recordings, Photos, Kids, and Parental Consent
Liisa Thomas & Snehal Desai of SheppardMullin write: In this remote era, companies are increasingly being approached by their business teams with ideas about products and services that involve video or audio recordings of their consumers. It may also involve letting people manipulate photos of themselves. Sometimes, those recordings and pictures are of children. Content…
Only 17 out of 54 African states have data privacy laws
Admire Moyo reports: African countries are lagging in enacting data protection laws, leaving citizens vulnerable to cyber attacks. That was the word from Susi du Preez, an independent security expert, speaking yesterday during the ITWeb Security Summit 2020, which was hosted virtually. Comparing the pros and cons of data protection and privacy legislation and the need for…
CCPA Final Regulations, with a Few Unexpected Changes
Alan L. Friel, Jeewon Serrato, Stanton Burke, Kyle R. Fath, Taylor A. Bloom and Catrina Wang of BakerHostetler write: On Friday, August 14, 2020, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced approval by the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) of final regulations (Final Regs) under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Proposed final regulations were submitted to the…