A group of Republican lawmakers introduced legislation to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) Friday, with the aim of better aligning it with other financial consumer protection laws.
To avoid lawsuits under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), companies should adopt a defense-first posture that emphasizes transparency, making themselves more difficult targets for litigation, said Matthew Pearson, a Womble Bond privacy lawyer.
Tesla asked a federal court to drop a class-action complaint against the company based on the plaintiff not meeting certain provisions of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). Tesla argued Friday that the plaintiff failed to show he suffered an injury, plausibly state a claim or prove jurisdiction to bring the case.
The Trump administration’s creation of large government databases consolidating the sensitive personal information of millions of Americans in an attempt to purge voter rolls is unlawful, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), League of Women Voters and others.
A data breach case that resulted in a forest management business agreeing to a $695,000 settlement “highlights the growing accountability companies face when consumer data is compromised,” Robinson+Cole privacy attorney Kathryn Rattigan blogged Thursday.
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Friday it identified the two companies and dataset at the heart of a scandal involving the sale of smartphone location data and is investigating. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) accused the DPA of failing to act on its earlier whistleblowing complaint.
TransUnion failed to secure personally identifiable information and financial data of more than 4 million people, attorneys said in a class action lawsuit announced Monday (see 2508280024).
Although every state has a data breach notification law, each one imposes different regulations and reporting requirements, Emory Roane, associate director of policy at Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC), said in a recent interview with Privacy Daily. While some protections exist at the federal level, a comprehensive breach law would help, as would data minimization principles, privacy pros added.
While not every state privacy bill becomes law, it’s important to look for trends in what’s being proposed across the U.S., privacy lawyers said during the Risk Digital virtual conference Thursday. They also said to keep an eye on class actions and watch for privacy rules that might be tucked into other kinds of laws.
Kmart Australia violated customers' privacy by indiscriminately collecting their personal and sensitive data with facial recognition technology (FRT) in an operation designed to tackle refund fraud, Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind announced Thursday.