In early January, legislators in New York and South Carolina introduced biometric privacy bills that would restrict private entities’ use of biometric information and, of particular note, provide consumers with a private right of action....

Photo credit: sharafmaksumov – stock.adobe.com. The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has settled charges with Flo Health, Inc. that the company misrepresented how it shared data from its popular fertility app. The app, Flo Period & Ovulation Tracker, allowed...

Congress recently passed legislation requiring minimum cybersecurity standards for Internet of Things (IoT) devices owned or used by the federal government, titled the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020. The Act was presented to the President on...

Per the European Data Protection Board’s (EDPB) draft recommendations on data transfers following the Schrems II decision, data exporters and importers must work together to determine whether the importer country’s law ensures an essentially equivalent level of...

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”) has settled charges with Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (“Zoom”) that the popular videoconferencing company allegedly engaged in a number of security- and privacy-related deceptive or unfair acts and practices. Zoom’s...

This article was originally published in the IAPP Daily Dashboard on August 19, 2020. By invalidating the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield but not rejecting wholesale the use of standard contractual clauses to transfer data to the U.S., the...