In February 2022, Belgium’s Data Protection Authority ruled that the IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework, the mechanism behind the vast majority of cookie consent banners across the European ad-supported
Surveillance law in the United States is not one law. It is a patchwork of federal statutes written across five decades, fifty different state consent regimes, and, increasingly, a body
Isabel Hahn and Aaron Alva wrote in Tech Policy Press on August 31 that treating AI as outside ordinary privacy law is a mistake. Hahn is a Berkman Klein Center
Norway’s Data Protection Authority says the EU’s proposed framework for combating online child sexual abuse could go too far by enabling broad scanning of private communications and weakening the practical
Cookie consent banners were adopted as a shield against privacy class actions and a tool for statutory compliance under laws like the CCPA. Today, plaintiffs’ attorneys are systematically turning that
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said this week that automated license-plate readers have gotten “out of control.” He supports tools that catch criminals. He does not want “a surveillance state.” “I
We have been warning businesses about the risks of not having proper privacy hygiene on your website but now that is stretching to mobile applications and the recent ads running
If your company received a demand letter or complaint under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) naming Silvia Garcia as plaintiff, you’re not the first — and you won’t
Building off the idea around Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs)—popularly known as “patent trolls” which have long extracted billions from businesses by threatening costly litigation over broad or obscure patents. The
At least 28 federal datasets have been deleted and another 338 data collections have been modified over the past year and a half, according to an online tracker released last