Jeffrey C. Mays reports: Telecommunications firms and mobile-based apps make billions of dollars per year by selling customer location data to marketers and other businesses, offering a vast window into the whereabouts of cellphone and app users, often without their knowledge. Read more on The New York Times. Citing the NYT article, Crain’s New York…
Category: Laws
New French Guidelines on Cookies and Trackers
Patrice Navarro of Hogan Lovells writes: On 19 July the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) published new guidelines on cookies and trackers. These replace the existing Recommendation No. 2013-378 of 5 December 2013, are intended to be in line with relevant GDPR provisions and have been produced in anticipation of the future ePrivacy Regulation….
Data Protection Update for Poland
Magdalena Gad-Nowak of Squire Patton Boggs writes: On July 8, 2019 the updated list of operations requiring a data protection impact assessment (DPIA) was published in the official gazette of the Republic of Poland. The “black list” was updated by the Polish data protection authority, after the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) raised its objections…
OH: Legal opinion says Lorain school administrator may have violated privacy laws
Carissa Woytach reports: A Lorain Schools administrator could have violated student privacy laws, according to a legal opinion presented at Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting. While testifying to the Ohio Senate Education Committee last month, Rae Bastock submitted absentee data for students at Longfellow Middle School. Bastock originally was the building principal, but was recently…