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[…] healthcare entities (supplementing HIPAA). Many states also have strong laws governing the confidentiality of state-held records, such as the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (Cal. Civil Code §§ 5656.37 ), and the Uniform Health Care Information Act (National Conference, 988).  However, as states increasingly contract with private entities to provide digital tools in […]

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[…] ages of digital consent, there are also differing interpretations of the obligations on information society services regarding children. For example, the United Kingdom’s proposed Age Appropriate Design Code defines a child as a person under the age of 18 and lays out additional requirements for information society services to build in privacy by design […]

[…] there is no immediate solution to provide an alternative lawful mechanism for transfers. The other options provided by the GDPR, like Binding Corporate Rules, certification mechanisms and Codes of Conduct (CoC) take a long time to be approved by Data Protection Authorities and very few are in place (particularly BCRs; there are currently no […]

[…] encryption generates a very long number that is the mathematical solution to the formula and can unscramble the protected sensitive information. This “key” must be kept a secret or anyone who has it will be able to access the information. Strong encryption employed by online services and connected devices protects sensitive communications and stored […]

[…] the data is linked to a particular user or device, and if the data will be used to track users. Because SDK’s run in-process with other app code, and share the app’s access permissions, developer responses are required to reflect both the practices of the app as well as any 3rd party code within […]

[…] encrypted and decrypted without loss, represents a particularly unique challenge and opportunity for creativity.  One way in which images can be shared more securely is by using secret sharing protocols, which require a combination of small pieces of secret information until a threshold of secret bits is compiled at which point a secret, such […]

[…] consumers are not the product, but rather “Angel Au-Yeung, “California Wants to Copy Alaska and Pay People a ‘Data Dividend.’ Is It Realistic?” Forbes(Feb. 14, 2019), https://www.forbes.com/sites/angelauyeung/2019/02/14/california-wants-to-copy-alaska-and-pay-people-a-data-dividend–is-it-realistic/#30486ee6222c. Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.125(b)(1) (“A business may offer financial incentives, including payments to consumers as compensation for the collection of personal information, the sale of personal information, or […]

[…] and purpose to what otherwise is simply effective management. This mission can be supported operationally by assurance activities like adding, maintaining and appropriately updating equity analysis for code audits. Many of the other things we can do have been talked about for years. Demanding not just diversity on boards, but people with a demonstrated commitment to […]

[…] In that spirit, we would like to call attention to the work of Professor Ruha Benjamin and her book Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. The FPF Privacy Book Club was honored to learn from Professor Benjamin this week and we invite you to watch the video and order her book. We found it to be a thought-provoking […]