Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
Background Check Co. Hit With FCRA Class Action, Law 360 (Feb. 5, 2016), http://www.law360.com/articles/755625/background-check-co-hit-with-fcra-class-action. By:Kelly Knaub Employers use information all the time to draw conclusions about potential candidates employability and…
FTC Big Data report and FCRA By: Kasumi Sugimoto http://www.law360.com/articles/745610/why-2016-will-be-a-big-year-for-big-data Last month, the FTC released a report “Big Data: A Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion? Understanding the Issues.” It outlines…
By: Charlie O’Toole Responding to these articles: http://fortune.com/2015/06/18/shutterfly-lawsuit-facial-recognition/ http://www.natlawreview.com/article/tag-you-re-it-biometric-information-privacy-act-class-action-against-shutterfly In June, 2015, Brian Norberg filed a class action lawsuit in Illinois federal court claiming that Shutterfly, an online vendor of…
Congress Considers Changes to FCRA to Expand Consumer Credit Files and Limit Use of Credit Reports for Employment Decisions By: Eline Declerck https://www.carltonfields.com/congress-considers-changes-to-fcra-to-expand-consumer-credit-files-and-limit-use-of-credit-reports-for-employment-decisions-01-21-2016/ (1/21/2016) This article written by Jeffrey Rood…
Apple and the US Government are at impasse after the government secured a court order requiring Apple's assistance in unlocking one of the San Bernardino killer's iPhone. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/technology/apples-stance-highlights-a-more-confrontational-tech-industry.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 In…
Please see below re: a summer study opportunity below at the UvA: Online activities quite often involve transfers of personal data between the European Union (EU) and the United States…
A small email provider and its customers have mobilized to force the Swiss government to put its new invasive surveillance law up for a public vote in a national referendum…
The discovery that the university is monitoring UC Berkeley network traffic has sparked outrage among faculty members who see such undisclosed surveillance as a significant threat to privacy.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/technology/at-uc-berkeley-a-new-digital-privacy-protest.html, http://www.dailycal.org/2016/02/02/web-cyber-controversy/. A federal…