On September 9, 2020, the Portland, Oregon City Council voted unanimously to ban the use of facial recognition technology by the city government, including the police department, following similar actions by the cities of Boston and San Francisco. According to one Council member, “[T]his technology just continues to exacerbate the over-criminalization of Black and brown
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CCPA News: Amendments Signed into Law by the California Governor and Draft Regulations Released by the State’s Attorney General
By Linn Foster Freedman & Robinson+Cole's Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team on
Last week was a busy week for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as Attorney General Xavier Becerra released draft regulations on October 10 and Governor Newsom signed several pending CCPA amendments into law on October 11. The CCPA amendments clarified several important issues, including:
- employee information and business-to-business (B2B) communications are exempt from the
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Cities Consider Banning the Use of Facial Recognition Technology
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in New + Now
In the footsteps of San Francisco’s ban of the use of facial recognition technology, the cities of Somerville, Massachusetts, Oakland, California, and Berkeley, California are considering banning the use of facial recognition technology by municipal agencies. The proposed ban is in the midst of more and more cameras and smart technology being used for traffic…
OneLogin Suffers and Notifies Customers of very Sophisticated and Scary Intrusion
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
San Francisco based OneLogin, which provides single sign on and identity management services for companies and app vendors, recently notified its users that it has discovered an unauthorized access to its data.
The idea behind OneLogin is for a user to have one username and password that it can use through OneLogin’s platform for all…
Super Bowl Sunday: No drone zone
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Drones
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released a youtube video on Wednesday letting drone operators know that the air above Levi’s Stadium in San Francisco is off limits on Super Bowl Sunday. Labeled a “No Drone Zone,” the FAA has instituted temporary flight restrictions within a 32-mile radius of the stadium from 2 p.m. to 11:59…