Alice Speri reports: For years, the New York Police Department illegally maintained a database containing the fingerprints of thousands of children charged as juvenile delinquents — in direct violation of state law mandating that police destroy these records after turning them over to the state’s Division of Criminal Justice Services. When lawyers representing some of those…
Category: Laws
Microsoft to apply California’s privacy law for all US users
Catalin Cimpanu reports: In a surprising announcement, Microsoft said in a blog post today that it would apply California’s upcoming strict privacy legislation to all its US users, and not just Californians. The California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, is currently set to go into effect on January 1, 2020. The upcoming law is considered one…
Kenya’s is stepping up its citizens’ digital security with a new EU-inspired data protection law
Yomi Kazeem reports: A new data protection law in Kenya is setting a high standard for the rest of the continent. As the country looks to engender more safeguards in the collection, handling and sharing of data, Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta has approved legislation which complies with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. Read more on…
Update from LitLand: Vimeo Faces BIPA Lawsuit
Maryam Casbarro of Davis Wright Tremaine has a litigation update in the firm’s monthly newsletter. The article begins: A group of plaintiffs has accused Vimeo of “collecting, storing, and using [plaintiffs’] biometric identifiers and biometric information [sic] without informed written consent, in direct violation of” the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The class action lawsuit alleges…