In this second part of our NFT series, join Daniel Goldberg and Zach Lewis, members of Frankfurt Kurnit’s Privacy & Data Security and Blockchain Technology Groups, for a webinar about the privacy and data protection issues brands must consider when dropping an NFT collection.
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In recent years, the term “NFT” has permeated our society, even becoming Collins Dictionary’s 2021 Word of the Year.
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CLA’s Privacy Law Section summarizes important developments in California privacy and beyond.
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On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court officially overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Prior to the announcement of the decision, alarms were raised about how health information collected by mobile apps and tech companies may be abused and used to penalize women for seeking or considering an abortion. On June 16, 2022, Congressional Representative Sara Jacobs (D-California), Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) responded to such concerns by introducing the federal privacy bill, My Body, My Data Act (“the Act”).
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In May 2022, Georgetown University law professor Alvaro Bedoya was confirmed to the fifth and last open commissioner’s seat on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). With the appointment of Commissioner Bedoya, a Democrat, the Democratic appointees on the Commission now have a 3-2 majority. Consequently, many analysts observe that FTC Chair Lina Khan is clear to push forward a very robust data privacy protection agenda. In interviews, Chair Khan noted how increased consumer use of online platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a wider “commercial surveillance” industry. Below are some highlights of the FTC’s forthcoming data privacy agenda.
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Northeastern states are making major changes to their privacy laws. Maine enacted a narrow bill, New York significantly amended one of its pending comprehensive privacy proposals, and the Massachusetts House shelved its flagship privacy bill.
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On July 8, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) started the formal rulemaking process to adopt proposed regulations implementing the Consumer Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), which amended the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
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If there is one thing that could be considered a silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is the accelerated discussion of employee privacy issues and workplace monitoring. The mass movement to remote work in recent years has put the spotlight on whether and how employees have privacy rights.
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Last month, U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm granted class certification to eight classes with claims against Marriott or Accenture LLP, a consulting company that worked with Marriott-owned Starwood Hotels and Resorts Inc. at the time of Marriott’s 2018 data breach.
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On 16 May 2022, the French data protection authority, the CNIL, published a new guidance in relation to the use of “cookie walls”, i.e. the practice of conditioning access to a service on the acceptance, by the website user / visitor, of the deployment of cookies or trackers on the user’s device (e.g. computer, smartphone, etc.).
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