Yan Luo, Zhijing Yu and Nicholas Shepherd of Covington & Burling write: On June 13, 2019, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) issued the draft Measures on Security Assessment of the Cross-border Transfer of Personal Information (“Draft Measures”) for public comment. (The official Chinese version of the Draft Measures is [Read More…]
Cristian Farias, one of the editors at the NYT, has a commentary that is part of their Privacy Project. It begins: Timothy Carpenter won’t be remembered for the circumstances that landed him in prison, but for the Supreme Court case that bears his name. Carpenter v. United States, which set [Read More…]
Amelia Vance of the Future of Privacy Forum has an excellent commentary in the Orlando Sentinel that begins: After the horrific school shooting in Parkland last year, state legislators passed a law that included a little-noticed provision creating a new government database. Education Week recently reported that the database will [Read More…]
Yesterday, this site linked to a report in the Wall Street Journal claiming that WSJ had uncovered emails that could show that Mark Zuckerberg was aware of problematic privacy practices. Not surprisingly, Facebook has pushed back against the story. Donnie O’Sullivan of CNN reports, in part: Responding to the story, [Read More…]