Cam Kerry on the Need for a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights LISTEN VIA THESE CHANNELS LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK Cameron Kerry, former General Counsel and Acting Secretary of the Department of Commerce during the Obama Administration and now at the Brookings Institute, returns to CLBR to discuss his call for enacting a Consumer…
What the Kavanaugh Nomination Means for Tech with EFF’s Camille Fischer LISTEN VIA THESE CHANNELS LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK The Senate will begin hearings on D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court immediately after Labor Day. The nomination is mired in controversy after Republicans insisted in 2016 that it was…
After President Trump nominated D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill the vacancy left by retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, the paper of record for Silicon Valley – the San Jose Mercury News – declared: President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court is a disaster for the technology industry and…
(1) The Law Was Passed in Seven Days In May 2017, AB 375 (California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018) (“CaCPA”) passed the Assembly only to be placed on inactive status in September 2017. In the interim, San Francisco Bay area housing developer Alastair Mactaggart launched Californians for Consumer Privacy and qualified the CaCPA for the November 2018 ballot. …
GDPR – Now What? With Mark Aldrich LISTEN VIA THESE CHANNELS LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK On May 25th, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect. While there was a big push among companies to obtain some level of compliance prior to the deadline, some have taken a wait and…
The Russian’s use of social media platforms to influence the 2016 election and the fallout from Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal has triggered calls for regulation of the tech sector, but with no proposals emerging. Earlier this month, former acting-Commerce Secretary Cameron Kerry called for reviving the Obama-era Privacy Bill of Rights. Enter Senate Intelligence Committee…
Sacramento Gone Wild California Passes Landmark Privacy Law Net Neutrality and Emails Bills Advance LISTEN VIA THESE CHANNELS LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made. John Godfrey Saxe We will attempt to cover the whirlwind of activity from the…
Within hours of the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) going into force on May 25th, a new non-profit – the European Center for Digital Rights (aka “noyb” for none of your business) – filed actions Facebook, Google, Instagram and WhatsApp seeking between 1.3 to 3.7 billion euros in penalties. Company Authority Maximum Penalty Complaint…
Time to Question “The Internet of Hal” The Facebook Scandal and the Dawn of Internet Skepticism This year the web will reach a major milestone as more than half of the world’s population will be online. Worldwide web founder Tim Berners-Lee announced this on the web’s 29th birthday in March, while questioning “are we sure…
Facebook CEO Marc Zuckerberg escaped from the five-hour Senate hearing relatively unscathed. Below are the highlights and fallout from today’s hearing. Zuckerberg’s Opening Statement The Facebook CEO continues to argue that mistakes were made because of Facebook idealism. Senator John Thune (R-SD) “After More Than a Decade of Promises, Why Should We Trust Facebook?” Commerce…
Below is an outline of the hearing times, how to watch, a preview of the key Committee members, Facebook’s prepared testimony and a link to a Washington Post annotated version. Also below are links to analysis on what to expect from the hearings. Hearing Time and Streaming The Senate Judiciary Committee and Committee on Commerce,…
A coalition of civil liberties and human rights groups have launched a campaign to pressure tech companies to commit to stronger privacy and security practices via a Security Pledge, that they contend “would ensure the Internet is used to expand democracy, not undermine it” if adopted. The pledge borrows several elements from the European Union’s GDPR…
The year was 2010. That was the last time Congress seriously contemplated privacy regulation. In November that year, the Republicans retook both the House and the Senate. When President Obama attempted to offer a “Privacy Bill of Rights” in 2015, it went nowhere. The only significant privacy legislation since then has been the repeal of…
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