WHAT: The Federal Trade Commission will host PrivacyCon 2020 to examine the latest research and trends related to consumer privacy and data security. WHEN: Tuesday, July 21, 2020, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. ET WHERE: The event will be held online. A link to view PrivacyCon will be posted the morning of the event to…
Category: Announcements
Resource: New Privacy Wiki
Jason Cronk has announced a new Privacy Wiki that you’ll want to bookmark. From Jason’s announcement: And now for something different: a return to #privacy. I’d like to soft-announce the Privacy Wiki, a wiki dedicated to privacy laws and events. https://lnkd.in/dqiVAC4 Currently the wiki has 78 US Federal laws, over 200 US State laws and over 100 articles…
Access Now and partners defend Maine broadband privacy law
June 1, 2020 – Today, Access Now and New America’s Open Technology Institute, represented by Georgetown Law’s Institute for Public Representation, filed an amicus brief in the internet service providers’ (ISPs) challenge to the Maine broadband privacy statute. The brief is in support of the state of Maine and of upholding the statute. The amicus brief argues that…
Other privacy news you may have missed this past week…
With so much understandable coverage of protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by a now-former police officer, many of us didn’t keep up with a lot of other news last week. Here are some of the headlines that Joe Cadillic compiled for the week: 5 big EU countries blast Big Tech…