As the scope and usage of facial recognition technology increases, privacy advocates are increasingly concerned about a lack of regulation as well as carve-outs in instances where rules exist, they said in interviews with Privacy Daily. But there are existing laws that cover the technology, some contended.
Interactive Advertising Bureau Tech Lab updated its Global Privacy Protocol (GPP) and released the second version of its Data Deletion Request Framework (DDRF), IAB Tech Lab said Thursday. The organization seeks comments by Dec. 1 on both Global Privacy Working Group projects by Dec. 1.
State attorneys general have relied on a combination of state consumer protection law, state comprehensive privacy law, federal children’s privacy law and multistate letters in cases against privacy violators, according to a new report from the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Connecticut could next year pass legislation like the California Delete Act and create a data broker registry, state Sen. James Maroney (D), author of Connecticut’s comprehensive privacy law, said on Marketecture’s The Monopoly Report podcast Wednesday. However, he said Connecticut would likely try to share the accessible deletion mechanism now under development at the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA).
Companies selling wearable devices should start with privacy by design to better comply with a growing body of privacy laws, said Duane Morris privacy attorney Michelle Donovan during the law firm’s webinar Tuesday.
This year’s Pennsylvania comprehensive privacy bill might have a shot of becoming law despite a similar bill’s failure last year, Fisher Phillips lawyers blogged Monday.
Florida’s privacy lawsuit last week against Roku surprised some data-protection experts, since the state’s Digital Bill of Rights frequently carries an asterisk in lists of the 20 state comprehensive privacy laws -- if it’s included at all. In the aftermath, however, some privacy experts told Privacy Daily that they’re still not ready to add Florida to the list.
An Albany-based accounting firm will pay $60,000 to settle with New York state in a data breach case, the attorney general's office said Monday. The AG's office said that the firm, Wojeski & Co., failed to adequately protect client data and notify customers of breaches, which exposed more than 6,000 individuals' personal information during two cybersecurity incidents. The firm waited more than one year before it notified victims of the first data breach, the state office said.
New York should catch up with many other states and enact comprehensive privacy legislation, officials from the state attorney general’s office told a joint hearing of the Assembly Consumer Affairs and Science committees recorded Tuesday.
Roku plans to challenge “inaccurate claims” in Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier's (R) lawsuit filed under the state’s comprehensive privacy law earlier this week, said a spokesperson for the maker of the video-streaming box.