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Do you want a simple way to keep current on important privacy changes? Avoid sleepless nights wondering whether you missed a privacy speed bump or pothole between annual updates? Worry no longer. Troutman Pepper is pleased to offer
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FTC Publishes AI Best Practices. Building upon its April 2020 guidance on Using Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms, on April 19, the FTC published new guidance focused on how businesses can promote truth, fairness, and equity in their use of AI. While recognizing the potential benefits of AI, the guidance stresses the need to avoid inadvertently introducing bias or other unfair outcomes. As a basis for its best practices and lessons learned for using AI, the guidance cites
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Do you want a simple way to keep current on important privacy
changes? Avoid sleepless nights wondering whether you missed a
privacy speed bump or pothole between annual updates? Worry no
longer. Troutman Pepper is pleased to offer
More Privacy,
Please a monthly newsletter recapping significant
industry and legal developments, as well as trends in the areas of
cybersecurity, information governance, and privacy.
U.S. LAWS AND REGULATION
Federal
FTC Publishes AI Best Practices. Building
upon its April 2020 guidance on Using Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms,
Schlichter
Apple Inc. argues that providing the personal information of Illinois residents with Apple devices and accounts for discovery purposes violates their privacy in a lawsuit alleging its photo app collects and stores biometric identifiers through facial recognition technology.
Attorney Andrew Schlichter of Schlichter Bogard & Denton LLP in St. Louis filed a motion to compel class discovery on April 19 on behalf of the putative class.
Schlichter wrote that “class members are Illinois residents with Apple devices whose biometric information was collected without their consent in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).”
He wrote that the request is “minimally burdensome” for Apple to produce.
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Ex-Worker Says Food Co. Can t Escape Hand Scan Suit
Law360 (May 4, 2021, 8:21 PM EDT) A food manufacturer s former worker urged an Illinois federal judge Monday not to dismiss his suit claiming that the company unlawfully collected his biometric information, arguing his claims apply to the company even if he worked for it through a third party.
Illinois resident Gregory Gates told U.S. District Judge Jorge Alonso that Eagle Family Foods Group LLC s argument that he can t pursue his biometric privacy suit against it since he worked for the company through a third party fails because the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act applies to any private entity that collects biometric information.
Monday, May 3, 2021
The end of last month the Sedona Conference and its Working Group 11 on Data Security and Privacy Liability (WG11) announced that The Sedona Conference Commentary on Quantifying Violations under U.S. Privacy Laws (“Commentary”) has been published for public comment. Read on for some key takeaways.
First, for those who are not so familiar, a brief introduction. What is The Sedona Conference? It is a nonpartisan, research and educational institute dedicated to the advanced study of law and policy in the areas of antitrust law, complex litigation, intellectual property rights, and data security and privacy law.
Since its inception, The Sedona Conference has had multiple Working Groups. These Working Groups, or “think-tanks”, are tasked with confronting some of the most challenging legal issues. For example, the first Working Group (WG1) met on October 17-18, 2002, and was dedicated to the development of guidelines for electronic documen