Micha Nandaraj Gallo of Covington & Burling writes: On May 5, 2020, the Seventh Circuit held that violations of the section 15(b) disclosure and informed consent provisions of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, 740 ILCS 14/1 et seq. (“BIPA”) constitute “an invasion of personal rights that is both concrete and particularized” for the purposes of establishing Article III…
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German Federal Agencies Publish Privacy and IT Security Requirements for Digital Health Applications
Ulrike Elteste, Kristof Van Quathem, and Nicholas Shepherd of Covington & Burling write: On April 21, 2020, the Regulation on the Requirements and Reimbursement Process for Digital Health Applications (Digitale Gesundheitsanwendungen-Verordnung or „DiGAV“, available here) entered into force in Germany. Among other provisions, the DiGAV includes specific IT security and privacy requirements. Shortly after the law took effect, Germany’s Federal…
Coronavirus sparks new fight over California’s internet privacy law
Dustin Gardiner reports: California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s office is gearing up to enforce the state’s landmark internet privacy law, despite pleas from business groups that say they aren’t ready because of the coronavirus pandemic. The California Consumer Privacy Act gives people the power to tell companies not to sell their personal data and to…
Californians for Consumer Privacy Introduces California Privacy Rights Act for November 2020 Ballot
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On May 4, 2020, Californians for Consumer Privacy (the group behind the ballot initiative that inspired the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”)) announced that it had collected over 900,000 signatures to qualify the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) for the November 2020 ballot. The group announced that it was taking steps to submit…