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Pandemic Response Sparks Product Liability, Other Concerns: Risk Alerts
Efforts by automakers to help manufacture medical equipment raise product liability and intellectual property concerns. An app that tracks where you have been and who you have crossed paths with ...
Privacy Lawsuits Benefit Attorneys More than Consumers: Chamber Study
Statutes allowing plaintiff lawyers to enforce privacy laws through private rights of action are clogging courts and provide no real benefit to consumers, a report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's ...
Facebook ‘Unintentionally Uploaded’ Email Contacts of Up to 1.5M Users
Facebook Inc. said it may have "unintentionally uploaded" email contacts of 1.5 million new users since May 2016, in what seems to be the latest privacy-related issue faced by the social media ...
Security of Self-Driving Vehicles High on U.S. Regulators’ Minds
In closed-door meetings last March, U.S. transportation regulators and others grappled with questions about whether police should have the power to disable self-driving cars and whether an automatic ...
Looming EU Data Law Spurring Booming Demand for Privacy Experts
Business is booming for software and privacy experts as companies across the globe spend millions of dollars to comply with a landmark European data protection law, even as many uncertainties remain ...
Regulators Reportedly Reviewing Wells Fargo After Unauthorized Release of Sensitive Client Data
Wells Fargo & Co., already in the regulatory spotlight because of last year's fake-account scandal, is drawing renewed scrutiny after a lawyer's unauthorized release of sensitive client details ...
Insurers Risk Triggering Government Regulation Without Responsible Big Data Usage: Fitch
For insurers, the new world of big data and analytics is one that's relatively unregulated. With that in mind, executives would do well to use these technologies responsibly so they don't stimulate ...
Lawsuit Alleging Facebook Tagging Violates Biometric Privacy Moves Forward
Facebook Inc. users who say the social network's facial scanning flouts their privacy rights won the first round of a court fight. A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday rejected Facebook's ...