Some items that Joe Cadillic has compiled over the past week: EFF to Court: Social Media Users Have Privacy and Free Speech Interests in Their Public Information https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/eff-court-social-media-users-have-privacy-and-free-speech-interests-their-public https://www.eff.org/document/eff-amicus-brief-doc-society-v-pompeo-ddc The European Commission’s Vice-President for Digital policy, warns against predictive policing in Artificial Intelligence: https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/vestager-warns-against-predictive-policing-in-artificial-intelligence/ The European Commission is worried that the Court of Justice may…
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Recent privacy news flagged for us by Joe Cadillic: UK – Unlocking The Power Of Location: The Government’s Geospatial Strategy “Today, location data is the coal and iron fueling a new revolution. This government has empowered the Geospatial Commission to unlock the power of location data – equipping our economy to recover and thrive after…
Privacy Professionals, Big Data May Be Hiding Even Bigger Human Problems
Frank Ready reports: On Thursday, data protection provider WireWheel continued its two-day privacy technology virtual conference—Spokes 2020—with a series of webinars examining how compliance professionals are adapting to some of the significant cultural shifts taking place across the nation. Topics ranged from the impact of COVID-19 on privacy programs to the challenges that poor data practices…
Litigation Risks for Contact Tracing Technology
Maryam Casbarro of Davis Wright Tremaine takes a look at potential risks for firms, writing, in part: The nature of contact tracing apps provides a number of parties in the data ecosystem with a broad set of data that could be used either purposefully or unintentionally and shared for purposes other than contact tracing. For…