In his State of the Union address last week, President Biden declared that he wants to: “strengthen privacy protections, ban targeted advertising to children, and demand tech companies stop collecting personal data on our children.” This statement comes just a couple of weeks after Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced the Kids
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U.S. AI, IoT, CAV, and Privacy Legislative Update – First Quarter 2022
By Covington Team on
This quarterly update summarizes key federal legislative and regulatory developments in the first quarter of 2022 related to artificial intelligence (“AI”), the Internet of Things (“IoT”), connected and automated vehicles (“CAVs”), and data privacy, and highlights a few particularly notable developments in the States. In the first quarter of 2022, Congress and the Administration focused…
France Enacts New Law on Parental Controls
Posted in EU Law and Regulatory, Privacy
On March 2, 2022, following a fast-track legislative process in the French National Assembly and Senate, President Macron of France signed into law a new piece of legislation designed to reinforce parental controls over minors’ access to the Internet (the “Law”) (see final text of the Law published in the Official Journal here…
Utah Legislature Passes Comprehensive Privacy Bill
Posted in Privacy
Utah appears poised to be the next state with a comprehensive privacy law on its books, following California, Virginia, and Colorado. On March 2nd, the Utah House of Representatives voted unanimously to approve an amended version of the legislative proposal, and the Senate concurred with the House amendment on the following day. …
California Legislature Introduces Bills To Extend Employment and Business-To-Business Data Exemptions
By Alexandra Scott, Lindsey Tonsager & Libbie Canter on
Posted in Privacy
As companies begin to prepare their CPRA compliance strategies, they are grappling with whether to include personal information processed in employment and business-to-business contexts. Currently, the CPRA’s partial exemptions for both of those types of data sunset on December 31, 2022. However, last week, the CA legislature introduced AB 2871 and AB 2891. AB…
Court Rejects Dismissal of Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act Against Clearview AI in Pending Multidistrict Litigation
By Matthew Delgado, Kathryn Cahoy & Eric Bosset on
Posted in Litigation, Privacy
An Illinois federal district court recently rejected dismissal of Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) claims in In re Clearview AI, Inc., Consumer Privacy Litigation, No. 21-cv-135 (N.D. Ill.). The Clearview plaintiffs alleged that Clearview violated their privacy rights without their knowledge and consent by scraping more than three billion photographs of facial images…
California Privacy Protection Agency Clarifies Timing of Forthcoming CPRA Regulations
Posted in Privacy
Last week the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) held its sixth Board meeting and first meeting of 2022. The meeting notably included a discussion of the expected timing for issuing final regulations implementing the California Privacy Rights Act.
As a reminder, the Agency gave notice to the California Attorney General on October 21, 2021 that…
Illinois Supreme Court Rules Workers’ Compensation Act Does Not Bar BIPA Liquidated Damages Claims
By Amy Heath & Eric Bosset on
Posted in Litigation, Privacy
On Thursday, the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously ruled in McDonald v. Symphony Bronzeville Park LLC that the exclusivity provisions of the state’s workers’ compensation statute do not preclude liquidated damages claims under the Biometric Information Privacy Act. The decision narrows the defenses available to employers facing employment-related BIPA claims.
Illinois’s Workers’ Compensation Act generally provides…
Inside Privacy Audiocast: Episode 18 – Recent Developments in GDPR Enforcement
On Episode 18 of Covington’s Inside Privacy Audiocast, Dan Cooper, Moritz Hüsch, Kristof van Quathem, and Petros Vinis discuss GDPR enforcement, and the evolution of regulatory fines since the GDPR was enacted in 2018.
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State Legislative Trends to Watch in 2022
By Jayne Ponder, Libbie Canter & Lindsey Tonsager on
Posted in Policy and Legislation, Privacy
A new year means new state privacy bills introduced in states across the country. With two additional states joining California last year with the passage of the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act and the Colorado Privacy Act, it is likely that more states will join the fray this year in creating a patchwork of comprehensive…