Khushi Mehrotra, Kushan Niyogi, and Shabbir Ahmed report: The Greater Chennai Corporation has engaged a private agency to collect biometric data such as fingerprints and retina scans of thousands of residents in the city belonging to the lowest strata of society, without any discernible safeguards to protect this data. For several years, a firm called…
Colorado Attorney General Releases Revised Colorado Privacy Act Draft Rules
Libbie Canter, Lindsey Tonsager, and Jayne Ponder of Covington and Burling write: The Colorado Attorney General released updated draft rules interpreting the Colorado Privacy Act on December 21, 2022 (“Draft Rules”). These revisions follow a series of stakeholder sessions on November 10th, 15th, and 17th. The Attorney General will convene a formal rulemaking hearing on February 1,…
No more TikTok on House of Representatives’ smartphones
Erik Bangeman reports: TikTok will no longer be allowed on any device managed by the US House of Representatives. On Tuesday, the House’s Chief Administrative Office announced the ban of the popular video-sharing app, a move that comes just a week after legislation that would bar TikTok from all federal devices was introduced. Read more at Ars…
No injunction against Meta over medical info
From Courthouse News: A federal judge in California declined to issue a preliminary injunction that would have stopped Meta from using its “Meta Pixel” web tracker to collect identifying medical information about Facebook users. Though the users raise “what is potentially a serious problem,” the social media platform’s internal systems already address the management of…