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The White House released a report to herald its focus on discrimination in “big data” assisted personnel screening algorithms. The report explained that screening algorithms may use factors that are correlated with protected categories to automate a discriminatory…
The lease on an Albany warehouse holding fingerprint records and other personal information collected from 22 million people was about to expire, and the state needed to digitize the files. The contract for the job required that employees responsible for scanning the…
While Chattanooga leaders are working to make it easier to hire people with criminal backgrounds, the Chattanooga Police Department is years behind on expunging its own records, with 23,000 files outstanding. “It could create real problems,” longtime…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it has reached settlements with three affiliated companies accused of selling the financial and other personal information of hundreds of thousands of consumers to illegitimate buyers. The settlements include a…
The full text of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework is now available. Privacy Shield wasdesigned by the U.S. Department of Commerce and European Commission to provide companies on both sides of the Atlantic with a mechanism to comply with EU data protection…
The European Union and United States have announced a replacement for the Safe Harbor agreement — the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield — which, if approved, will provide a new framework under which U.S. companies can transfer personal data from the EU to the U.S. under the EU…
The Florida House of Representatives has proposed a bill that will prohibit employers from requesting or requiring access to social media account of employee or prospective employee and prohibit employers from taking retaliatory personnel action against employee as…
The state Senate plans to renew its attempt to deliver social media privacy protections for students and employment candidates in Massachusetts. Sponsored by Assistant Majority Leader Sen. Cynthia Stone Creem, the bill would prohibit public and private educational…
This year’s Enforcement Report, prepared by DataGuidance’s team of Privacy Analysts in collaboration with their network of legal experts has now launched. Building on the previous two Reports, DataGuidance has expanded its coverage to include a truly…
The Uniform Law Commission recently announced that it intends to propose legislation in 2016 that would seek to bring uniformity and consistency to social media privacy legislation across the states, particularly in the 27 states that have not passed such legislation….