In Aaron M. Ogletree v. Cleveland State University, the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio granted summary judgment in favor of plaintiff finding that the university’s online testing procedures violated Mr. Ogletree’s rights under the Fourth Amendment. At issue was a camera scan of the bedroom of his residence in which Mr. Ogletree was testing and which […]
In 2020, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) annulled Privacy Shield, the EU-U.S. data flows pact. That decision, however, did not invalidate the privacy standard contractual clauses (SCCs). In an earlier post the issue of if the SCCs would survive the ECJ’s Privacy Shield decision was raised: https://spelusolawoffice.com/2020/09/11/will-the-eus-standard-contract-clauses-survive-the-invalidation-of-privacy-shield-with-respect-data-transfers-between-the-eu-and-us/. The news website Politico recently reported that the Irish Data Protection Commission circulated a draft […]
Sadly, the US is experiencing a wave of gun violence. Whether the result of an uptick in shootings in big cities, or high-profile shootings such as those recently in the New York City subway system, Buffalo, NY or Uvalde, TX, all have common denominators: needless loss of life and suffering. This begs the questions: Could steps have been taken to […]
On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued a judgment declaring the inadequacy of the protections provided by the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework. Privacy Shield was developed by the US Department of Commerce and the European Commission to facilitate compliance with personal data protection requirements when transferring personal data from the European Union to the United […]