On December 2, 2015, Shaun Donovan, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, spoke to an audience of privacy professionals at the Federal Privacy Summit. Director Donovan recognized the importance for the Government to continuously maintain its efforts to protect citizens’ privacy. Donovan announced “plans to establish a new Federal Privacy Council, […]
In an Order dated October 15, 2015, a U.S. Magistrate Judge in the N.D. of California granted the motion of a putative class of plaintiffs requiring Facebook to produce information in response to interrogatories and a 30(b)(6) deposition notice. The plaintiffs allege that Facebook has violated the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act and California privacy […]
On November 9, 2015, the D.C. District Court filed an order barring the US government from collecting, as part of the NSA’s Bulk Telephony Metadata Program, any metadata associated with a California lawyer and his law firm. Klayman v. Obama. However, on November 10, 2015, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ordered […]
The authors discuss cross-device tracking; the process of tracking a single consumer across all of the consumer’s devices, and its recent development. The full text is available at http://www.dataprivacymonitor.com…
On December 1, 2015, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Bill H.R. 699, introduced in February 2015. The “Email Privacy Act” would reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). The Bill would amend the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 prohibiting, save exceptions, a “provider of remote computing service or electronic communication service […]
In December 2015, a class action lawsuit was filed in Superior Court in Los Angeles against Mattel and ToyTalk by parents looking for injunctive relief and money damages for Defendants’ inherently dangerous product (Hello Barbie) and unlawful and negligent collection, use, and distribution of minors’ personal information. “Hello Barbie” is an artificial intelligence-enabled fashion doll […]
As provided for by the USA Freedom Act, in December 2015, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) designated five amici curiae who will act as outsider public advocates. The five named attorneys are Jonathan G. Cedarbaum, John D. Cline, Laura Donohue, Amy Jeffress, and Marc Zwillinger. The FISC is considered the most secret court. […]
In January 2014, The SC Supreme Court amended the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure (SCRCP) to add the following rule: RULE 41.2 – PRIVACY PROTECTION FOR FILINGS (a) Redaction. A person filing a document in paper or electronic format shall not include, or will redact where inclusion is necessary, the following personal identifying information. (1) Social […]
Working Group 1 of The Sedona Conference announces “the final release of its new Commentary addressing the evolving responsibilities that lawyers, law firms, and other legal service providers have to provide security for their own, their clients’, and third parties’ private and confidential information”. This final version of The Sedona Conference Commentary on Privacy and Information Security: Principles […]
On November 16, 2015, EU Commissioner Věra Jourová spoke in Washington about transatlantic data flow. After highlighting the importance of safeguarding, at the same time, the fundamental right to privacy, security, and economic opportunities and business growth, she remembered the latest developments in this area: (a) negotiation on an “umbrella” agreement on privacy and […]