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Do Mandatory Age Verification Laws Conflict with Biometric Privacy Laws?–Kuklinski v. Binance

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

California passed the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) nominally to protect children’s privacy, but at the same time, the AADC requires businesses to do an age “assurance” of all their users, children and adults alike. Doing age assurance/age verification raises substantial privacy risks.

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Cloudflare to EU: Anti-Piracy Measures Shouldn’t Harm Privacy and Security

TorrentFreak

Aside from the legal complications, it believes that privacy rights deserve some level of protection. ” “Our view is that the Commission’s staff document and Watch List should be limited to Commission-verified allegations of illegal behavior, based on principled and fair legal standards,” Cloudflare adds.

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The Office Of The Information And Privacy Commissioner Of Ontario Responds To The Province’s Proposal For Private Sector Privacy Law Reform

IPilogue

On September 7, 2021, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) issued its response to the Ontario government’s white paper on proposals for a provincial private sector privacy law, as previously reported by the E-TIPS® Newsletter here.

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Analysing Dipak Ranjan Mukherjee vs. Ministry of Commerce & Industry in Context of Transparency, Privacy and the RTI Act

SpicyIP

In an interesting development, the CIC recently rejected an RTI application concerning information on IPRS’ compliance with the Copyright Act, upholding privacy for private organizations and confidentiality of inquiry reports that have not been tabled in front of the Parliament. Kartikeya is a second-year law student of the LL.B.

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‘365 for Business’ Users’ Privacy Lawsuit Dismissed–Russo v. Microsoft

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Instead, the allegations recount Microsoft’s numerous (robust) privacy-related representations made to customers. Claim under Washington’s CPA : The court says first that plaintiffs “overpayment theory” (that they would not have paid as much in price had they known of Microsoft’s lax privacy practices”) states a cognizable injury.

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Why Impersonation is Difficult to Stop

Plagiarism Today

Back in 1991, Phill Zimmermann released an encryption program named Pretty Good Privacy or PGP. On an internet rightly worried about privacy, how do we verify who is who? Part 1: Verification Costs Money and Privacy. They are giving up a piece of their privacy. This puts us in a difficult position. Is it even possible?

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Taking Publicity and Privacy to the Grave: Delhi High Court on Descendability of Publicity Rights

SpicyIP

Arguments and Decision The plaintiff argued that the defendant has violated the late actor’s privacy and personality rights by its unauthorised use. The Hon’ble Court correctly dismissed the injunction application and upheld the non-descendability of the right to privacy and right to publicity. Maneka Gandhi and Deepa Jayakumar v.

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