Data Privacy Detective

Identity Orchestration - the difference between Identity and ID. Join Gerry Gebel, IT veteran, now Head of Standards at Strata Identity - https://strata.io . Gerry leads an effort to develop Identity Query Language, a policy orchestration standard. Strata Identity pioneered the concept of Identity Orchestration, which helps organizations integrate and control incompatible identity systems.  Consid...

From the day of birth, and perhaps even earlier, we become public data subjects. Without our express consent, our personal information is collected and poured out like salt from a shaker because of public records laws. There has been little federal attention to this for 50 years, and state laws vary. Tune in for an exploration of many ways in which we are data public beyond our personal control. I...

Privacy - "freedom from unauthorized invasion," says Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, or "the quality or state of being apart from company or observation." The Detective did not authorize an online onslaught. But every day my computer and phone are bombarded with unsolicited ads and messages. My digital space is invaded by demands for my attention. I'm forced constantly to declutter. I try to swat...

Join Yugo Nagashima, data privacy and technology attorney at Frost Brown Todd, as he and the Data Privacy Detective discusses two major topics from February 2024. Learn how DoorDash and California settled a dispute under California's privacy law that raises important issues for business and consumers. DoorDash was accused of failing to inform customers about its providing their personal informatio...

Who doesn't like cookies? When a website posts a notice about cookies, that sounds like a free offer for something good. But cookies on the internet are not good or bad. They aren't cookies at all in any real sense. They are simply embedded technology that attract and use information about us and what we do on a website. Aside from software that enables a website to function, many "cookies" - let'...

Data Privacy and Tracking: How to combine privacy protection and quality data for Digital Companies User consent, ad-blocking, and tracking prevention are on the rise, along with increasingly privacy-centric regulation. Companies want to understand what users want from products and services. This depends on accurate datasets of user experience. How can websites receive accurate information about u...

Tune in for three top January 2024 data privacy developments in the Detective's monthly update. Yugo Nagashima and Brion St. Amour, data privacy and tech attorneys at Frost Brown Todd LLP, join the Detective for a monthly roundup. Explore:  How the Video Privacy Protection Act (a U.S. law from video rentals days) is alive in the internet age and a centerpiece of class actions – and how tech compan...

You buy a new computer. You push the power button. Your screen blazes with tips and prompts, not from the device maker but from tech giants like Microsoft and Google. You rush to get started with offerings from these giants and other iconic providers. What about your personal information and how your privacy will be affected by your launch on the new device? Or perhaps you skipped the privacy choi...