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EUROPE: e-Privacy Regulation – changes regarding electronic communications and digital marketing

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

As under the current framework (the e-Privacy Directive), unsolicited commercial communications by electronic means (“spam”) are prohibited, except if consent was given by the recipient. b) Cookies and similar files/tags. b) Cookies and similar files/tags. Amendments in the Proposal of 26 July.

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Maciej Ceg?owski on Privacy in the Information Age

Schneier on Security

Just like you can't drop out of the oil economy by refusing to drive a car, you can't opt out of the surveillance economy by forswearing technology (and for many people, that choice is not an option). That is not consent. What we do at home, work, church, school, or in our leisure time does not belong in a permanent record.

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FTC Releases Report on Facial Recognition Technology

Hunton Privacy

In a third case study, a social networking website uses facial recognition technology to help its users “tag” photos of their friends. These best practices are based on the principles contained in the FTC’s March 2012 report on privacy and include: (1) privacy by design, (2) simplified consumer choice and (3) transparency.

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Guest Post -- New Global Data  and Privacy Regulations in 2018 and the GDPR

AIIM

Affirmative, Clear Consent – Organizations must obtain “affirmative, clear consent” to store and use a person’s data. Implied consent (pre-checked opt-in boxes, a statement buried in a privacy policy, etc.) Your Best Defense Should Include Some New Approaches. But more on them later. Who does it affect?

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US: The CCPA ‘Moving Target’ One Month Before Privacy Enforcement Begins

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Second, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) initiative[2], which would significantly change the CCPA and make it very difficult to make adjustments to the legislation in the future, has been submitted to the California Secretary of State with more than 900,000 signatures. The CPRA is now subject to sampling of the validity of those signatures.

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