Five months ago, a Southern California lawmaker stood next to the leader of the state’s privacy watchdog agency outside the Capitol to present an ambitious legislative plan, they said, to “end illegal data harvesting” by mammoth tech companies.
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The Fourth District Court of Appeal’s decision upheld the dismissal of a purported class-action challenge to the Automated License Plate Recognition statute due to lack of standing.
Some smart glasses collect biometric data about faces, voiceprints and other identifying characteristics, but collecting and storing these might require disclosure and informed consent under biometric laws in Illinois, Texas and Colorado, said attorney Adia Craig. Failure to comply might lead to statutory penalties and private rights of action, Craig said.
California’s legislature is considering a bill to narrow the kinds of lawsuits that private plaintiffs can file under the state’s 60-year-old communications privacy law, which critics say has been abused to target standard features of website design.
In a decision that might have the potential to shape future privacy litigation brought under state wiretapping statutes, a California federal judge granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment...
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