Laura E. Goldsmith of Proskauer reports: Unwanted robocalls reportedly totaled 26.3 billion calls in 2018, sparking more and more consumer complaints to the FCC and FTC and increased legislative and regulatory activity to combat the practice. Some automated calls are beneficial, such as school closing announcements, bank fraud warnings, and medical notifications, and some caller…
Category: Misc
New Resource: Policymaker’s Guide to Student Data Privacy
With all the energy and passion about student privacy and data protection this week, I was thrilled to hear that the Future of Privacy Forum has released a new Policymaker‘s Guide to Student Data Privacy. I missed the webinar that coincided with the launch because I was at the International Privacy + Security Forum, but I…
Final Version, “Compelled Decryption and the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination”
Orin Kerr writes: I am pleased to say that the Texas Law Review has published the final version of my article on how the Fifth Amendment applies to compelling a person to enter a password: Compelled Decryption and the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination. This article has roots in some blog posts that I wrote here at…
Reidenberg et al. Article on Trustworthy Privacy Indicators
Thanks to Jeff Sovern of Public Citizen, for making us aware of a new article by Joel Reidenberg and his colleagues. Here’s the abstract from Trustworthy Privacy Indicators: Grades, Labels, Certifications and Dashboards, 96 Washington University Law Review (2019). Despite numerous groups’ efforts to score, grade, label, and rate the privacy of websites, apps, and…