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The California Privacy Rights Act is coming. Soon. For real.
To help employers get ready, I recently joined the “Your Bytes = Your Rights” podcast to discuss the changes coming in January 2023 to employee privacy laws, the rise in Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) from employees and the complexities…
Continue Reading The California Privacy Rights Act Is Coming. What Employers Need to Know.While speaking recently at the Nordic Privacy Arena in Sweden, I offered Nordic companies seven…
Continue Reading 7 Things Nordic Companies Should Think About When Doing Business in the USData Protection Professionals Like it Hot: 7 Hot Topics and Trends in Data Privacy Today
I was lucky enough to give the keynote this week at the InfoGov World conference…
Continue Reading Data Protection Professionals Like it Hot: 7 Hot Topics and Trends in Data Privacy TodayWhat does the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Advocate General’s opinion in…
Continue Reading CJEU Advocate General Issues Opinion on Meta vs. the German BundeskartellamtThe Latest
A Class Action Lawsuit Claims a Health System Uses Meta Pixel on Its Website. What You Need to Know.
Let’s review:
Health information is sensitive.
Sharing it with third parties for advertising is more sensitive.
Doing it behind a log-in where there is no expectation of such tracking?
You’re…
Continue Reading A Class Action Lawsuit Claims a Health System Uses Meta Pixel on Its Website. What You Need to Know.Last week, six House Democrats introduced H.R. 8334, the Robotext Scam Prevention Act, which seeks to expand federal telemarketing laws to, among other things, expressly cover text messaging.
It…
Continue Reading New House Bill Threatens to Expand the TCPA to Regulate Text MessagesThe Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 may be the most well-known privacy law in the United States, but it is also one of the most misunderstood.
Many…
Continue Reading HIPAA Covers a Lot Less Than People Think. But Beware of Other US Privacy Laws.Does Vehicle Service Data “Relate to an Identifiable Individual?” Finland DPA Says It’s Complicated
Does vehicle service data for services performed on a vehicle while owned by a previous owner belong to the new owner and need to be provided as part of a…
Continue Reading Does Vehicle Service Data “Relate to an Identifiable Individual?” Finland DPA Says It’s ComplicatedDuring a recent webinar hosted by The Chicago Bar Association, some other panelists and I made some predictions about the future of data privacy.
What is on the horizon?
The …
Continue Reading What Does the Future of Data Privacy Hold? Some Predictions.California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued statement about protecting health data in mobile apps in view of the upcoming SCOTUS decision in Dobbs. In the process, he also signaled…
Continue Reading Keep Your Health Data Secure. And Your App-Hosted Health Data Securer.The old saying went that “if you don’t want it on the front page of the newspaper, don’t put it in an email.” Well, if you don’t want to produce…
Continue Reading If You Don’t Want It Released to an Employee, Don’t Put It in Your Employee FilesLet’s say you are an EU company. You engage a processor. Data is processed in the EU. There is no transfer.
But in the processor-sub-processor data processing agreement, the data…
Continue Reading Where Is a Transfer? Datatilsynet Says Almost Everywhere!Datatilsynet Norway has issued a helpful guide on the data protection aspects of employee monitoring, which are helpful for GDPR, but also for California employers with CPRA bringing employee rights…
Continue Reading What Employers Need to Know About Monitoring Employee E-Mail