Joshua Brustein reports on a California legislator who is fighting the influence of Big Tech when it comes to California’s new privacy law (CCPA)and its amendments: One person attempting to stand in the way of the companies is Buffy Wicks, a freshman member of the California Assembly who sits on [Read More…]
Yan Luo, Zhijing Yu and Nicholas Shepherd of Covington & Burling write: On May 31, 2019, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) released the draft Regulation on the Protection of Children’s Personal Information Online (“Draft Regulation”) for public comment. (An official Chinese version is available here and an unofficial English translation [Read More…]
Piper Hansen is the Editor-in-Chief of Manual RedEye, the student newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky’s duPont Manual High School. She researched and wrote a really excellent piece on student digital privacy. It begins: Amid the college application deadlines, school-work and football games in mid-October, duPont Manual’s senior class met in the [Read More…]
Ray Walsh writes: In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and with the constant onslaught of privacy breaches reported each week, business morals surrounding consumer data are becoming increasingly important – and are even causing tech workers to quit their jobs. The EU’s GDPR has paved the way for [Read More…]