November has been a busy month in artificial intelligence on the international, federal, and state levels. The last several weeks have seen what is probably an unprecedented amount of activity regarding artificial Intelligence (“AI”), the most dramatic of which involved the stepping down of Open AI’s CEO Sam Altman last Friday after a
Yesterday (May 20, 2020), Apple and Google launched software that will allow public health authorities to create mobile applications that notify people when they may have come in contact with people who have confirmed cases of COVID-19, while purportedly preserving privacy around identifying information and location data. People who have updated
As more and more businesses send their employees home to self-quarantine and work remotely as part of their COVID-19 mitigation measures, it is important to remember that working remotely carries with it unique data privacy and security concerns of which everyone should be aware. The following are a few tips for employers and employees to
Today, the FCC voted to pass the Restoring Internet Freedom order, which repeals the 2015 “net neutrality” rules and reverts back to the “light regulatory” touch the FCC previously had in place regarding internet service providers (“ISPs”). Of primary importance, the FCC restored the classification of Broadband Internet Access Services as “information services” under Title
Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced their intent to coordinate which of the two agencies would coordinate online consumer protection efforts following the adoption of the Restore Internet Freedom Order, and published a draft Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that outlines those efforts.
The draft MOU outlines a number of
On April 4, 2017, President Trump signed legislation repealing the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) privacy protections adopted in October 2016. The regulations, set to go into effect later this year, would have required internet service providers (ISPs) to adopt stricter consumer privacy protections than websites like Google and Facebook. Among other things, the regulations would
Today, acting FTC Chairman Maureen K. Ohlhausen and FCC Chairman Ajit Pai issued a joint statement on the FCC’s issuance of a temporary stay of a data security regulation for broadband providers scheduled to take effect on March 2. In their statement, they advocate for a “comprehensive and consistent framework”, so that Americans do not
Today, Vizio, Inc., agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle charges by the FTC and the New Jersey Attorney General that it installed software on its Smart TGVS to collect viewing data on 11 million consumer televisions without the consumers’ knowledge or consent. The $2.2 million payment includes a $1.5 million payment to the FTC,
On October 27, 2016, the FCC released rules to “empower consumers to decide how data are used and shared by broadband providers.” In the order, the FCC defines information protected under Section 222 for telecommunications carriers as “customer proprietary information (customer PI)”, to include the following: (1) individually identifiable Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI), (2) personally identifiable information (PII) and (3) content of communications. The FCC also adopts and explains its multi-part approach to determining whether data has been properly de-identified and is therefore not subject to the customer choice regime adopted by the FCC for customer PI. Much of the rules are modeled after FTC best practices and the White House Administration’s Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights.
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