EDPB Releases Guidelines on Virtual Voice Assistants
On March 12, 2021, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its Guidelines 01/2021 on Virtual Voice Assistants (VVA) for consultation.
Legislation
A New York Lawmaker Wants to Ban Police Use of Armed Robots
Officers’ use of Boston Robotics’ Digidog intensifies concerns about militarization of the police.
Civil Liberties Committee calls for further improvements to the GDPR implementation and strengthened enforcement
Civil Liberties Committee adopted on March 16 the draft resolution evaluating the GDPR and called for effective enforcement and adequate resources for supervisory authorities.
The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence
The EU wants to have all private chats, messages, and emails automatically searched for suspicious content, generally and indiscriminately.
The first but not last comprehensive US privacy bill of 2021
The proposed federal bill would create protections for the processing of sensitive personal information.
EU ministers want EU-wide data retention.
The great majority of EU justice ministers on March 15 once again called a new Europe-wide collection of traffic and location data of the entire population (data retention).
ePrivacy Regulation update: Comparison of the three EU drafts
The EUinstitutions will seek to agree the final text of the ePrivacy Regulation. This article sets out the significant areas of divergence across the three proposals.
Commission ‘not naive’ about UK’s data ambitions, Reynders assures MEPs
However, EU lawmakers in Brussels doubt that the UK’s future data protection landscape will be fully aligned with EU data protection standards
Colorado Joins List of States Proposing Privacy Laws
Colorado has introduced the “Colorado Privacy Act”, noting that “EU GDPR is emerging as a model for countries across the globe in data privacy”.
Surveillance Camera Hack Raises Legal Risk of Digital Device Use
A recent hack into a massive collection of security camera data from Verkada Inc. shows the cyber and privacy-related vulnerabilities of digital devices that could give way to lawsuits and government enforcement actions.
California Attorney General Approves Additional CCPA Regulations
Regulations state that methods for submitting requests to opt-out may not be designed with the purpose of, or have the substantial effect of, “subverting or impairing” a consumer’s choice to opt-out.
UK to introduce new laws and a code of practice for police wanting to rifle through mobile phone messages
A new UK law will explicitly authorise the “voluntary” slurping of data from mobile phones of crime suspects and witnesses.