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New Primer on the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In summer 2018, I wrote a short primer on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) soon after its passage. The passage of the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) in November 2020 necessitated a complete revamp. That primer proved to be quite popular, and I posted annual updated versions in summer 2019 and 2020.

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Synthetic Data: The Next Solution for Data Privacy?

IPilogue

One contentious point from the Bracing for Impact Conference: AI for the Future of Health session was synthetic data’s potential to solve the privacy concerns surrounding the datasets needed to train AI algorithms. Data augmentation is typically not useful in the privacy context. This results in more complete datasets.

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Differential Privacy: The Big Tech Solution to Big Data Privacy

IPilogue

The AI revolution has brought about significant concerns about the privacy of big data. Thankfully, over the past decade, big tech has found a solution to this problem: differential privacy, which actors have implemented in various ways. government has implemented differential privacy for their 2020 census data.

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Privacy Law Is Devouring Internet Law (and Other Doctrines)…To Everyone’s Detriment

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

What does “privacy” mean? It’s a simple question that lacks a single answer, even from privacy experts. Without a universally shared definition of privacy, scholars have instead attempted to “define” privacy by taxonomizing problems that they think should fit under the privacy umbrella.

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Instacart’s Privacy Policy Protects Stripe from Consumer Privacy Claims–Silver v. Stripe

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Instacart purports to bind consumers to its privacy policy via this screen: (Sorry for the poor image resolution. The court says Instacart creates an enforceable sign-in-wrap (ugh): The Court finds Instacart’s privacy policy conspicuous and obvious for several reasons. Airbnb , the green font for the privacy policy link is NBD.

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Privacy of IP Addresses: Understanding the Supreme Court Ruling in R. v. Bykovets

Barry Sookman

Bykovets , 2024 SCC 6, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that for Charter of Rights purposes, a person being investigated by the police has a reasonable expectation of privacy in an IP address in the possession of a third person, in this case a payment processor, even when not linked to any personally identifying information.

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Privacy in an Age Without Any

The Illusion of More

Abortion is not a subject for the editorial scope of this blog, but because the issue historically intersects the right of privacy—and because enforcement of the most draconian laws now […]. The post Privacy in an Age Without Any appeared first on The Illusion of More. Wade will be overturned.

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