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 [...]
Four and a half years have passed since the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU). On 24 December 2020, the two parties finally struck a last-minute agreement to avoid the disastrous scenario of a no-deal Brexit. The majority of provisions included in the new “UK-EU Trade [...]
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, [...]
The quarantine routine is becoming common for many Americans. I myself finished a 14-day quarantine in early November, complete with PCR test following a positive COVID-19 exposure. Within those two weeks, I—as I am sure many Americans—had several questions floating around in my head including, Am I quarantining properly? When [...]
On December 2, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its highly anticipated 2021 rules for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and Quality Payment Program (QPP). These rules have had, and will continue to have, a massive impact on the use of digital health tools in [...]