Sidney Lowry reports: Logan Fainter, former Northwest student convicted of invasion of privacy, has been charged with assault to the second degree, two counts of sexual misconduct to the second degree and property damage to the second degree March 23 in Macon, Missouri. His most recent appearance in court was for a hearing to reduce…
Indiana Set to Become the Seventh State with a Comprehensive Privacy Law
Kirk J. Nahra and Ali A. Jessani of WilmerHale write: On Tuesday, April 11, the Indiana House passed Senate Bill No. 5, a comprehensive state privacy law similar to the ones that are already in effect in California, Colorado, Virginia, Utah and Connecticut. This bill previously passed (49 – 0) in the Indiana Senate on February…
Iowa: And then there were six – what you need to do to comply with the new Iowa Privacy Law
On 29 March 2023, Iowa became the sixth state to pass a comprehensive data privacy law (in line behind Connecticut, Utah, Virginia, Colorado, and California). The Iowa Consumer Data Protection Act (‘ICDPA’) will go into effect on 1 January 2025. While there are some familiar elements to other state laws that came before it (the…
Latam Media Briefing: Proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty Lacks Sufficient Human Rights Safeguards, Exacerbating Threats to Privacy and Civil Liberties in Latin America
Proposals for Broad Surveillance Powers Could Authorize Government Spyware, Which is Already Being Used to Target Human Rights Defenders, Journalists in the Region VIENNA—On Tuesday, April 18, at 10:00 am Pacific Time (1:00 pm Eastern Time), experts from Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and three Latin American digital rights allies will brief reporters about the unique…