Amber Thomson, Liisa Thomas, Elfin Noce, and Kari Rollins of SheppardMullin write: Ohio recently followed South Carolina as the second state to adopt cybersecurity legislation modeled after the NAIC’s Insurance Data Security Model Law. The Ohio law, Senate Bill 273, applies to insurers authorized to do business in Ohio and [Read More…]
Kevin Townsend reports: Governments within the European Union appear to be flouting their own GDPR laws. Many official government websites are harboring and delivering tracking cookies from the ad tech industry even though they don’t rely on any advertising income. Eighty-nine percent of 184,683 pages delivered tracking cookies. Twenty-five of [Read More…]
Alexandra Jones reports: A privacy class action that Google settled for $8.5 million faced a Supreme Court clamp-down Wednesday, with the justices ruling 8-1 that there are too many questions about standing to move forward. Google established the fund in 2015 to resolve claims that it allowed third-party websites to [Read More…]
Action Alert. Media company Thomson-Reuters is making millions by supplying ICE agents with access to billions of license plate records. Government agents are actively using this data to target immigrant families and violate millions of people’s privacy and human rights. Reuters journalists have taken strong stands in the past. If [Read More…]