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Location Data
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Inside Privacy
Republicans Poised To Introduce COVID-19 Privacy Bill
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker is working on draft legislation that would regulate the collection and use of health and location information in connection with efforts to track and…
Covington Digital Health
EDPB Issues New Guidance on the Use of Location Data and Contact Tracing in the Context of the COVID-19 Outbreak
By Dan Cooper
As we anticipated in a previous blog post, on April 22, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) issued new guidelines on the use of location data and contact tracing apps in the…
Inside Privacy
EDPB Issues New Guidance on the Use of Location Data and Contact Tracing in the Context of the COVID-19 Outbreak
By Dan Cooper
As we anticipated in a previous blog post, on April 22, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) issued new guidelines on the use of location data and contact tracing…
The Data Advisor
The EDPB Responds to the European Commission’s Recommendation on COVID-19 Mobile Apps
By Jan Dhont, Nikolaos Theodorakis, Christopher Foo
On April 14, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (the EDPB) published a letter in response to the European Commission's call for consultation (the letter) regarding its recommendation on the use of mobile…
Eye On Privacy
Using Mobile Apps and Location Data to Combat COVID-19
By Julia Kadish
A number of private and government entities have released apps and software development kits (SDKs) relying on location tracking data to help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. While the use of…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
EU Commission Recommends a Common Approach to Using Mobile Apps and Location Data to Combat and Exit COVID-19
On April 8, 2020, the European Commission adopted a recommendation to develop a common European approach for the use of mobile applications and mobile location data in response to the…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
EDPS Publishes Letter Addressing Coronavirus and Monitoring Location Data
On March 25, 2020, the European Data Protection Supervisor sent a letter to the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology addressing the various initiatives involving telecommunications providers at the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
ICE Uses Cellphone Location Data
Many cellphone apps ask for permission to access your location data. The NYT covered the issue in depth about a year-and-a-half ago, noting that vast amounts of location data is…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
New York City Considers Ban on Location Data Sharing
By Odia Kagan
I know where you are and I saw what you did. A proposed bill would make it illegal for cellphone companies and mobile app developers to share location data gathered…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
New York City Considers Prohibition on Sharing Location Data
On July 23, 2019, New York City Council members introduced Int. 1632-2019, an amendment to the administrative code of New York City that would prohibit telecommunications carriers and mobile applications…