Nov 14, 2024 California Regulator Pressing Forward with Privacy-Driven AI Rules By Mitzi Hill The state regulator charged with enforcing California's comprehensive privacy law has given official notice of a rulemaking regarding...
Oct 24, 2024 Marriott Paying $52M to Settle Federal and State Data Breach Investigations By Mitzi Hill In connection with several data breaches affecting hundreds of millions of hotel guests, Marriott will settle outstanding investigations...
Oct 15, 2024 Scam/Fraud Warning Follows Hurricanes; Reminder of How Most Cyber Events Start By Mitzi Hill As if the toll of natural disasters were not bad enough, the reality today is that criminals use them as a way to perpetrate frauds on...
Oct 08, 2024 California Privacy Class Actions Target Website Analytics Tools By Mitzi Hill There has been a spate of claims against small website operators in recent years, claiming that the pixels, cookies, and other trackers...
Oct 03, 2024 LinkedIn Suffers Outcry for Not Disclosing AI Use of Data By Mitzi Hill In late September, LinkedIn faced a wall of public opposition and shaming for failing to disclose that it was using user data to train AI...
Sep 24, 2024 "Universal Opt-Out Mechanisms" Now Required Under State Privacy Law(s) By Mitzi Hill We have mentioned GPC (Global Privacy Control) before on this blog. If your company website does not yet employ GPC, now is a good time...
Sep 17, 2024 American Bar Association Issues Guidance on Ethical Use of GAI in Legal Services By Brandie Barrows On July 29, 2024, the American Bar Association (“ABA”) Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility released Formal...
Sep 05, 2024 Uber Fined 290M Euro for Transferring Personal Data to the US By Mitzi Hill The Netherlands has fined Uber hundreds of millions of dollars for failing to provide adequate protection for driver data transferred to...
Aug 22, 2024 Kids' Privacy Bills on the Block in the House By Mitzi Hill After passing the Senate with much fanfare, a pair of federal privacy bills intended to protect children online has ground to a halt in...
Aug 13, 2024 Senate Passes Kids' Privacy Bills By Mitzi Hill Although Congress has been hard pressed to do anything in the privacy arena – for years – it has managed to get significant traction this...
Aug 08, 2024 NY AG Publishes How-To Guide for Businesses Regarding Consumer Tracking on the Web By Mitzi Hill The Attorney General of New York has published two new websites (one for businesses, one for consumers) relating to privacy choices...
Aug 06, 2024 An AI Walks Into a Bar... By Mitzi Hill If you are a sentient human, you probably recognize the headline of this post as the set-up for a million jokes and puns. (If you are...