Tag Archives: consumer privacy

Key Takeaways:

• Insurance renewal season is upon us.  Now is the time to make sure your insurance coverages are aligned with your business needs over the coming year.
• Consumer privacy laws are changing and developing rapidly.
• Enhanced protections for consumers’ data, particularly biometric and sensitive personal information, have implications for a variety of businesses and industries.
• Colorado is and will likely continue developing laws that protect consumers’ personal information and may open businesses up to increased exposure to liability.…

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After the invalidation of the Safe Harbor by the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) last October in the Schrems case, negotiations between the European Commission and US authorities led to a new agreement called the EU-US Privacy Shield.  However, the EU’s 1995 Data Protection Directive provides that the Article 29 Working Party (“WP29”) has to issue an opinion on this kind of agreements and it did so on April 13.… More

In March 16, 2011 testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, the Obama Administration formally asked Congress to pass a "consumer privacy bill of rights" enforced by the FTC:

Legislation to provide a stronger statutory framework to protect consumers’ online
privacy interests should contain three key elements. First, the Administration recommends that legislation set forth baseline consumer data privacy protections—that is, a “consumer privacy bill of rights.”… More