Over the last several years, regulators, Congress, and most recently state legislatures, have been taking a hard look at “big tech” companies, the relationship they have with small businesses, like our members, and have raised concerns about competition in the digital market. We also have concerns. Real-life concerns that transcend [...]
A little more than three months ago, we wrote about the impending expansion of the state privacy patchwork. At the time, Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) was a signature away from becoming law, with promising efforts also underway in Washington and Oklahoma. Now, with VCDPA officially on the books [...]
On June 4, 2021, the European Commission (EC) adopted a revised version of the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs). SCCs are important template agreements that allow entities to transfer data outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) to third countries (such as the United States) that have not received a formal [...]
Okay, so maybe 2020 fell a little short of its “year of privacy” billing. But hey, so did 2019, as well as 2018 for that matter. Clearly, hope springs eternal for us privacy acolytes – particularly, it seems, as the calendar turns over and we cleanse ourselves of last year’s [...]
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 [...]