AI Identification Means Anonymization Isn’t a Safe Legal Harbor

Opinion: Companies have treated anonymization as a legal safe harbor and commercial baseline, but AI is making it easier to ...
JD Supra

Anonymization v. De-Identification, Post-Dobbs; Rumblings from the FTC

When is personal data “anonymized”? The answer to this question has largely been based on jurisdiction. If your business is in the U.S., so long as HIPAA or the CCPA does not govern, then generally ...
JD Supra

Practitioners’ Corner: What Is Personal Information? Or, Understanding Anonymization, De-Identification, and Aggregation

Practitioners' Corner is a monthly focus on topics of interest to in-house counsel in the implementation of their privacy programs. Pop quiz: Is an IP address ...
Law

For Data Privacy Attorneys, Data Anonymization Is Often Too Good to Be True

Varying standards and new technology that makes re-identifying data easier is putting pressure on companies to "get serious" about their data anonymization efforts. While lawyers chase the patchwork ...
The Hill

What we’re missing in the CCPA de-identification debate

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is predicted to reshape national technology companies in the United States. But the devil is in the details. When it comes ...