Mark Brennan, Scott Loughlin, Timothy Tobin, Bret Cohen, Melissa Bianchi, and Filippo Raso of Hogan Lovells write: Washington State is already shaping up as a center of state privacy legislation for 2020. Last year, SB 5376 (also known as the Washington Privacy Act, or WPA) gained significant traction in the legislature, passing the state Senate almost unanimously…
Category: Laws
Man Sues Fingerprint Database Service Over Privacy Law Breach
Bill Toulas reports: A US citizen named Paul Sayas wants to initiate a class-action lawsuit against “Biometric Impressions”, a fingerprint database and biometrics checking service provider. The plaintiff has submitted his lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, and calls for other people who have had their biometric data collected and unlawfully shared by the…
Vietnam government drafts decree to protect personal data
Vietnam News/ANN reports: The Ministry of Public Security is drafting a governmental decree on personal data protection in order to protect the legal rights and interests of individuals and organisations. Vietnam is facing increasing cases of personal data theft, with more entities collecting, analysing and processing data for different purposes without notifying customers. Read more…
French Privacy Watchdog Seeks to Keep Track of Online Cookies
Stephanie Bodoni reports: France’s privacy watchdog drafted guidelines for the proper use of online tracking tools in the wake of a series of complaints about companies’ use of people’s online data for advertising and marketing purposes without consent. CNIL, France’s data protection authority, published the draft guidelines Tuesday as part of an action plan to help better…