In public comments during the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) data privacy rulemaking open forum, a senior U.S. Chamber of Commerce came out against the agency making broad rules on data
Continue Reading U.S. Chamber Opposes FTC Rulemaking on Data Privacy
Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya wants companies that collect location information to take a hard look at their practices and what they can do to better protect their users.
Continue Reading The FTC Is Coming After Your Faulty Location Data Practices
The FTC launched a detailed notice of proposed rulemaking on August 11, 2022 regarding commercial surveillance and data security. The commission also released a fact sheet on commercial surveillance.
For
Continue Reading FTC Launches Detailed Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Commercial Surveillance, Data Security
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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 Messages
The 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.
If you say you will use information for one purpose, don’t use it for another purpose without getting consent.
The FTC has been saying this for a long time, but
Continue Reading Don’t Say One Thing and Do Another When It Comes to Information
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 Files
Hey hospitals, retirement homes and clinics! If you are using biometrics to control medication dispensing systems, then Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act then (BIPA) has news for you.
Maine is stepping into the privacy mix with a possible biometric law, and a possible CCPA-like law.
The biometric law, proposed by State Representative Maggie O’Neil, is generally similar to
Continue Reading A Look at Maine’s Proposed Biometrics Law