PRG News Roundup, March 1, 2023
On February 28, the FTC and CFPB jointly issued a request for information seeking public input about background screening processes in the rental housing market. The agencies are interested in…
PRG News Roundup, February 22, 2023
News: The Illinois Supreme Court ruled that biometric privacy claims accrue each time one gives their biometric information without prior consent. This sets the stage for massive damage awards; here,…
PRG News Roundup, February 15, 2023
Events: In an upcoming session (Feb 21 at 4:45pm in Furman Hall 210) of the Guarini Colloquium: Regulating Global Digital Corporations, Professor Anu Bradford will discuss her new book, “Digital…
PRG News Roundup, February 8, 2023
On February 7, PRG’s own Kathryn Taylor published a new piece building Professor Veena Dubal’s article about the gamification of gig work (discussed during the January 23 session of PRG).…
PRG News Roundup, February 1, 2023
Events: JSD Fellows Stav Zeitouni and Kat Geddes are leading an upper-level reading group called “Propertizing Intangibles in the Digital Age.” The group intends to explore the changes that laws…
PRG News Roundup, January 25, 2023
The use and collection of voice data in general has been in the spotlight in part due to new Microsoft voice-cloning software called VALL-E . Privacy advocates have voiced worries that the VALL-E, Apple's…
PRG News Roundup, November 30, 2022
News The European Union Court of Justice invalidated a provision of the EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive that guaranteed access to information on the “real owners” of a company. Some commentators…
PRG News Roundup, November 16, 2022
News Google agreed to pay $392 million to 40 states -- the largest multi-state privacy settlement in U.S. history -- in response to allegations that it broke consumer protection laws…
PRG News Roundup, November 9, 2022
News A class action lawsuit was filed against Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI alleging large-scale copyright violations in the companies’ GitHub Copilot AI-powered coding assistant. Australia’s Labor Party introduced a privacy bill including significantly increased…
PRG News Roundup, November 2, 2022
News FTC brought an action agaisnt Chegg, the education technology provider. Responding to their allegedly lax data security practices, the FTC proposed requiring the company to bolster its data security…