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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
The supplemental measures adopted by Google to regulate data transfers within the framework of the Google Analytics functionality are not sufficient to exclude the possibility of access by American intelligence
Continue Reading No Google Analytics for You, Part Trois
In prepared remarks last week, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser explained the expected rulemaking process for the state’s new privacy act.
Here is how it should work:
Q2 2022: Public
Continue Reading Colorado to Adopt Privacy Act Regulations in 2023
The German Data Protection Conference (DSK) has issued an expert opinion on the state of surveillance laws in the United States.
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Continue Reading The German DSK Expert Opinion on FISA 702 Is Broader Than We Think