Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: Two bills dealing with processing COVID-19 data in California were referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee. Assembly Bill 660 prohibits data collected, received or prepared for purposes of contact tracing from being used or disclosed for any purpose other than facilitating contact tracing efforts. It also requires the data…
Month: August 2020
U.S. Customs Opens Mass Searches of Data on Confiscated Traveler Smartphones, Computers
Theodore F. Claypoole of Womble Bond Dickinson writes: I am an advocate of providing law enforcement officers the newest technology to do their jobs well. If there is a recording of an event, the police should be able to use it. If a stingray can capture cell phone conversation, with appropriate procedural limitation, an officer…
Proctoring Apps Subject Students to Unnecessary Surveillance
Jason Kelley and Lindsay Oliver of EFF recently wrote: With COVID-19 forcing millions of teachers and students to rethink in-person schooling, this moment is ripe for an innovation in learning. Unfortunately, many schools have simply substituted surveillance technology for real transformation. The use of proctoring apps—privacy-invasive software products that “watch” students as they take tests or…
Back to School Special: Recordings, Photos, Kids, and Parental Consent
Liisa Thomas & Snehal Desai of SheppardMullin write: In this remote era, companies are increasingly being approached by their business teams with ideas about products and services that involve video or audio recordings of their consumers. It may also involve letting people manipulate photos of themselves. Sometimes, those recordings and pictures are of children. Content…