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Latest — Sep 23, 2022

How To Have Safe Online Searches

It's happened to just about everyone: look something up, and for the rest of the day, advertisements everywhere seem to be catered to whatever it is that's been searched for. It's at the top of Google searches; it's on the side of miscellaneous websites. This is called targeted advertisement, and

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Password Protection

Though most people would change their locks after a physical break-in, fewer people—only 13%, in fact[1]—change their passwords on websites that have experienced security breaches. And of this cautious 13%, many new passwords tend to be either weaker, very similar, or even the same as passwords used

What To Know About the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA)

In many ways, the Colorado Privacy Act of 2021 (“CPA”), also known as SB 21-190, is similar, but not identical, to its predecessors: the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), the California Privacy Rights Enforcement Act (“CPRA”) and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”).[1] The CPA focuses on data

Senate Bill: Health and Location Data Protection Act (HLDPA)

When the holding in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022) came out on June 24, many representatives from the left have tried to protect Americans who leave their state to obtain a legal abortion. The bill, introduced by Senator Elizabeth Warren, bans data brokers from selling Americans’ health

Protecting your Child's Personal Information Online: COPPA

When it comes to a child’s personal information, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts the parents in control. In 1998, after a great concern over the privacy of America’s youth, the United States Congress passed COPPA to protect children under the age of 13.[1]

Meet our Summer 2022 Intern

Evan Liu is one of our 2022 Summer Interns and a rising third-year at UCSD. What talent are you most proud of? I am most proud of my ability to write in what I think is a neat way. Even though I take longer to write things out, I feel

Meet Our 2022 Summer Fellow

Branden Parent is our 2022 Summer Intern and a rising 2L at UNLV Boyd School of Law. What talent are you most proud of? I am proud of my ability to write poetry and prose. Do you know your Meyers-Briggs? No, but I would like to! What are your pet

Right to Be Forgotten

The Right to be Forgotten is most robustly codified in the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. This right was initially recognized during the EU case Google v. Spain. The precedent set was that compaines that manages search engines and profit from data - like Google - should remove links to

How to: Delete Your Data From Google

How to remove your personal information from appearing on a Google Search Google lets people make free requests to have personally identifying information of theirs not show up on Google searches. To start, go to https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/9685456#ts=2889054%2C2889099 Click the options that reflect

Health Record Privacy

HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) The Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) requires that healthcare providers and healthcare insurance companies safely store and transfer individually identifiable health information, or protected health information, as well as use reasonable diligence when