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[…] other countries, amongst other salient topics. Professor Anupam Chander and Neil Chilson Professor Eunice Park (Western State College of Law) discussed her paper, Reproductive Health Care Data Free or For Sale: Post-Roe Surveillance and the “Three Corners” of Privacy Legislation Needed with Amanda Newman (Office of Congresswoman Sara Jacobs). Professor Park’s paper recommends placing […]

[…] efforts to shape a more equitable digital public sphere through improved laws and legal institutions. This Essay critically elaborates the Black Opticon triad and considers whether the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (2021), the federal Data Protection Act (2021), and new resources for the Federal Trade Commission proposed in 2021 possibly meet imperatives of […]

[…] the vendor. In practice, this can result in overblocking akin to censorship whether it be deliberate or inadvertent. Although this type of filtering presents a First Amendment free speech issue that will not be fully explored here, it is important to demonstrate the types of battles over LGBTQ+ youth rights that have already played […]

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest”–Ben Franklin Let’s make 2023 the year we invest in ourselves, our teams, and the knowledge needed to best navigate this dynamic world of privacy and data protection.  I am fortunate to know many of you who will read this blog post, but for those who I […]

[…] facing activities, including the completion of DPIAs, dissemination of information about data subjects’ rights, and upskilling of DPOs and other privacy professionals. DPAs will also seek to promote the approval and adoption of Codes of Conduct (CoCs) and certification mechanisms as ways to enable organizations to easily demonstrate compliance with the EU’s privacy acquis. […]

[…] selection (the human rights principle of participation),32 and further ensure data collection is based on the principle of self-identification, which requires that surveys should always allow for free responses (including no responses) as well as indicating multiple identities (see section 4 on the human rights principle of self-identification).  3. ESG reporting Under the upcoming […]

[…] algorithms are always trained on historical data, it is virtually impossible to find a “clean” dataset on which an algorithm can be trained to be “bias – free.” To solve this, group indicators such as race, gender, and religion are often removed from the training data. The idea is that if the algorithm cannot […]

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[…] for access to your location data. Do they need it for some reason that is obvious, like helping you with directions or showing your nearby friends? Feel free to say no. And be aware that location data is often used to tailor ads and recommendations based on locations you have recently visited. Allowing access […]

[…] Law School This paper critically elaborates the “Black Opticon” — the discriminatory oversurveillance, discriminatory exclusion and discriminatory predation African Americans face online. The paper considers whether the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (2021), the Federal Data Protection Act (2021) and new resources for the Federal Trade Commission possibly meet imperatives of a race-conscious African […]