Lisa Ellingson and Nadeem Schwen of Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A. write: Minnesota is now the latest state to take strides towards enacting an omnibus consumer data privacy law. On February 22, 2021, the “Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act” was introduced as HF 1492 by Rep. Steve Elkins (DFL) and Rep. Mohamud Noor (DFL) in the Minnesota House…
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Twitter’s Jack Dorsey sued by shareholder; allegedly disregarded user privacy to benefit Square
Alexis Keenan reports: Twitter (TWTR) CEO Jack Dorsey was sued on Monday by a shareholder claiming he breached his fiduciary duties to the social media company by giving advertisers broad access to users’ private data. The shareholder, suing on behalf of Twitter, alleges that the other company Dorsey heads, payments company Square (SQ), “benefitted wildly from this disregard…
EPIC Obtains Number of Location Data Requests from U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware
From the good folks at EPIC.org: The Department of Justice has, after more than three years, finally begun to respond to EPIC’s request for cell phone surveillance orders issued by federal prosecutors. EPIC first requested copies of the orders in 2017 and then filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department in 2018 when the agency failed to…
Hidden Canvas analytics violate student privacy, shift power to professors
Will Romano reports: On a campus where the majority of classes are held online, Canvas and its embedded video-sharing platforms Zoom and BBCollaborate Ultra have become the primary form of communication between students and professors. While these platforms are the leading way to create an online learning community, they share with professors data that violates student…