Bravo to now-tenured law prof Woodrow Hartzog for this great piece on Slate. It begins: Are you an OkCupid user? Would you consider the data on your profile public—fair game for anyone to download and share with the rest of the world? That’s the argument made by a group of Danish researchers who released a data seton nearly…
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Hong Kong: Marketing Company Fined for Using Personal Data in Direct Marketing without Customer’s Consent and Failing to Comply with an Opt-out Request
Okay, $2061(USD) is not any kind of huge fine by U.S. or even U.K. standards, but it’s nice to see enforcement. From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong: (16 May 2016) A marketing company, GMS (Asia Pacific) Limited (“GMS“), faced two charges under the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (the “Ordinance“) today at…
SCOTUS vacates and remands Spokeo over “concrete” injury prong of Article III standing
In a 6-2 opinion issued today, the Supreme Court has vacated the Ninth Circuit’s ruling in Robins v. Spokeo, and remanded the case. At issue was what an individual had to demonstrate for Article III standing in suing under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). SCOTUS found that the Ninth Circuit’s analysis had been incomplete and that…
Don’t threaten donor privacy for political expediency
Nicole Neily of the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity has an OpEd on the OC Register that begins: California Attorney General Kamala Harris has staked much of her political identity on a crusade against so-called “dark money” in politics. For several years, Harris, who is running to replace Barbara Boxer in the U.S. Senate,…