John F. Carr reports: Two favorite tactics used by traffic police in Massachusetts — the pretext stop and the inventory search — may no longer be automatically combined to justify an inventory search of a car stopped on a pretext under a ruling handed down earlier this month by the state Appeals Court. In 1973,…
Category: U.S.
Off to the Races: Over 50 Privacy Bills Introduced in the State of New York
Lydia de la Torre and Ann J. LaFrance of Squire Patton Boggs LLP write: … New York was closely watched in privacy circles last year, as approximately 30 privacy bills had been introduced and were discussed during the 2019-2020 session. None of the bills were enacted but state legislators clearly are not giving up. More…
Judge in Google Case Disturbed That Even ‘Incognito’ Users Are Tracked
Joel Rosenblatt reports: When Google users browse in “Incognito” mode, just how hidden is their activity? The Alphabet Inc. unit says activating the stealth mode in Chrome, or “private browsing” in other browsers, means the company won’t “remember your activity.” But a judge with a history of taking Silicon Valley giants to task about their data collection…
The Future of the FTC: Part I
Ryan Blaney and Brooke Gottlieb of Proskauer write: On January 21, 2021, President Biden designated Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter as acting chair of the FTC. Soon thereafter in one of her first speeches in her new role, Chairwoman Slaughter announced two substantive areas of priority for the FTC – the COVID-19 pandemic…