Phillip Tracy reports: Verizon customers who value their privacy should immediately opt-out of the phone carrier’s disturbing new data tracking service. As reported by Input, “Verizon Custom Experience” is a program being pitched to users as a way for the company to “personalize our communications with you, give you more relevant product and service recommendations, and…
Category: U.S.
‘Tool to Enforce Orwellian Rules’: 80 House Republicans Help Pass Bill to Fund Federal Vaccination Database
Dystopia is in the eye of the beholder? Katherine Hamilton reports: Eighty House Republicans voted with Democrats on Tuesday to pass the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act, which if passed by the Senate and signed into law would fund a federal vaccination database. According to the bill, also called H. R. 550, the government would provide $400 million in taxpayer…
What is the Online Privacy Act of 2021?
Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: U.S. Congresswomen Anna Eshoo (D-California) and Zoe Lofgren (D-California) have reintroduced House Resolution 6027 for the Online Privacy Act of 2021. Some of the bill’s key differentiators from CCPA, CDPA and CPA: limitations on the disclosure of personal information to third parties that are not subject to the Act/jurisdiction…
New York Requires Businesses To Notify Employees of Electronic Monitoring
Micaela McMurrough, Libbie Canter, and Teresa Lewi of Covington & Burling write: On November 8, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a new electronic monitoring law (S2628) requiring New York businesses that monitor or intercept employees’ e-mails, telephone calls, or internet usage to notify employees in writing of these practices. The new law amends…