As with so many other fields, 2020 bore witness to a dizzying series of developments within the facial recognition policy sphere. At ACT| the App Association, we did our best to stay abreast of it all. We compiled a taxonomy of legislative responses to facial recognition and created an infographic [...]
While scholars of the finer points of Californian privacy law will have immediately noticed the redundancy in the title of this post, an important clarification is in order for those less familiar: Prop 24, CPRA, and CCPA 2.0 all, somewhat confusingly, refer to the same thing. On November 3, 2020, [...]
Even as we await clarity on the implications of elections across the country, one thing is certain: privacy is not dead. To the contrary, a host of outstanding privacy issues are sure to remain top of mind for policymakers at the federal, state, local, and international levels, including: lawful access [...]
We are experiencing an unmistakable acceleration in the long creeping global trend toward internet balkanization. Nations around the world are increasingly skeptical of friends and foes alike, from the European Union rethinking international data transfers to data localization mandates in India. Of course, no one tracing President Trump’s rhetoric was [...]
Last month, the App Association and Innovators Network Foundation convened a virtual Roundtable bringing together experts from the United States and European Union to discuss fallout from the Court of Justice of the European Union’s recent ruling in case known as Schrems II. As you may know, the key [...]