Privacy News & Issues
Stephanie Pell and Richard Salgado of the Lawfare Institute write: On July 23, the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District issued a whopper of a decision that looks to upset decades’ long understandings of how users’ data is protected from disclosure by providers under the Stored Communications Act (SCA). It eviscerates the SCA’s prohibitions that prevent communication…
PPSA writes: Imagine this scenario: It’s early evening, and you and your special someone are on the couch preparing to binge-watch your favorite streaming show. Ding-dong. You answer the door and, as you hoped, it is the dinner delivery person. He hands you your prepaid, pre-tipped meal and you start to shut the door when…
Sarah Jacob of Bloomberg reports: Uber Technologies Inc. was hit by a record €290 million ($324 million) by the Dutch privacy watchdog for failing to abide by European protection standards when it shipped swathes of sensitive data about its drivers to the US. The Dutch Data Protection Authority said Uber was collecting information of drivers…
Privacy law scholar Daniel Solove writes: The U.S. lacks a federal comprehensive privacy law, but the states have sprung into action by passing broadly-applicable consumer privacy laws. Nearly 20 states have passed such laws – so about 40% of the states now have privacy laws. Are these laws any good? Short answer: No But I…