In seeming contradiction of its recent decision in Google v. CNIL, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU or Court) has ruled that European Union (EU) law allows EU nations to order platforms the host content like in Facebook in this case to remove illegal content or any identical or equivalent illegal content … Continue reading EU’s Highest Court Rules Against Facebook
“Congress and Trump Agreed They Want a National Privacy Law. It Is Nowhere in Sight.“ – The New York Times. As we have periodically informed you, stakeholders in Congress are not close to reaching agreement on a privacy bill even with the effective date of the CCPA looming. Now it remains to be seen whether … Continue reading Further Reading
Last week, we dived into Senator Catherine Cortez Masto’s (D-NV) “Digital Accountability and Transparency to Advance Privacy Act” (DATA Privacy Act) (S. 583). Of course, Cortez Masto served as the attorney general of Nevada for eight years prior to succeeding former Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), and this bill demonstrates her background as her state’s top … Continue reading Spotlight: A Privacy Bill A Week: “Consumer Data Protection Act”
Last week, we dove into the “Balancing the Rights Of Web Surfers Equally and Responsibly Act of 2019” (BROWSER Act) (S. 1116). This week, we’ll look at another bipartisan Senate bill but one sponsored by a contestant for the Democratic nomination: Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN). She introduced the “Social Media Privacy Protection and Consumer Rights … Continue reading Spotlight: A Privacy Bill A Week: the “Social Media Privacy Protection and Consumer Rights Act of 2019”
With Congress having returned from the August recess, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, a host of bills are awaiting these eager lawmakers. However, I will focus only on those bills that have been marked up and reported out of committee or have been passed by one chamber as these bills may be the most likely to be … Continue reading Fall Preview For Technology Legislation
Okay, so I lied. I'm back with a privacy bill sooner than a week. In January, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) released a bill, the “American Data Dissemination (ADD) Act” (S. 142) that offers a different approach on privacy and technology by using the “Privacy Act of 1974” as a template for regulating those entities providing … Continue reading Rubio’s Privacy Bill
As we wait for stakeholders in Congress to finalize and release their proposals to regulate how private sector companies handle, use, and distribute the private information of Americans, we thought there would be value in reviewing some of the key bills already introduced this Congress and some introduced over the last few Congresses so when … Continue reading A Privacy Bill A Week: The Data Care Act
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