The Privacy and Legal Concerns of COVID-19 Tracking Apps

The Privacy and Legal Concerns of COVID-19 Tracking Apps

The current health pandemic is at the forefront of all of our minds, all of the time. You cannot turn on a news station, open a social media platform, or walk past a group of people without hearing someone discussing COVID-19. People are conducting their day to day lives with great caution as the threat of catching the coronavirus is all too real and has hit close to home for most of us. Masks are being worn, social distancing is being practiced, and trips are being postponed to help reduce the spread of the virus.

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Tips for Young Attorneys

Tips for Young Attorneys

By the time that they graduate law school and pass the bar, young attorneys have just closed out two long decades of schooling. The shift from studying law to actually practicing law can seem a bit intimidating and leaves a lot of new attorneys wondering if they are doing anything right.

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CCPA – An Overview of the New California Consumer Privacy Act

CCPA – An Overview of the New California Consumer Privacy Act

What you need to know about the California Privacy Law Act CCPA

Vox illustrated all too clearly in their recent article on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that the internet knows way too much about way too many of us. For example, if you look hard enough, you’ll probably find that it knows your age, home address, who you work for, how much money you make, and when you last voted (and probably who you voted for as well!).  And that’s just a start.  Even if you didn’t willingly share this information, you should not be too surprised that it’s online.  As the Vox author (Zoe Schiffer) pointed out, “Personal data — the searches, photos, purchases, locations, and Facebook messages that populate digital identities and fuel the attention economy — is the internet’s favorite currency.”

At long last, however, lawmakers may be starting to get a handle on the problem.

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