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Legal and data protection research writer at TermsFeed.
Will Blesch is a versatile writer with experience writing for online consumer publications and news outlets as well as helping companies in high tech, biotech, SaaS, Legal, and the healthcare industries (a few others here and there too) create content and marketing collateral that’s perfect for their relative audiences.
Compliantly Using Biometric Data in Oregon
In Oregon, the legislature amended its existing Consumer Information Protection Act (OCIPA) to include biometric data, and that amendment became enforceable at the beginning of January 2020. This means that personal information, such as images of fingerprints, iris or retina, and other automatic measurements of an individual's physical characteristics, are...
Is a Privacy Policy the Same as a Privacy Notice or Privacy Statement?
Is it a Privacy Policy or a Privacy Notice? Same thing, right? What about a Privacy Policy or a Privacy Statement? Some feel these terms are entirely interchangeable and are simply a case of "you say potato, I say potahto." The truth is, in many cases, these terms are synonymous,...
The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA)
The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (HB 2307 / SB 1392) or (VCDPA) passed the Virginia House of Delegates and the state Senate on February 5, 2021. The law passed with significant bipartisan support. It will become enforceable on January 1, 2023. This article will look at what the law requires...
Google Chrome Extensions Requirements for Privacy Policy & Secure Handling
There are specific rules regarding privacy and data handling, which you need to comply with to make your extension available on the Google Chrome Web Store. Back at the beginning of 2019, Google made two significant announcements concerning its expectations regarding how Chrome extension developers must safeguard their users' privacy. In...
Maryland's PIPA - Personal Information Protection Act
Maryland's Personal Information Protection Act ("PIPA") is a privacy law that became effective on January 1, 2008. It's also known as Maryland's Data Breach Notification Law. Since 2008, a series of amendments were passed that revised and enhanced the definitions of private information to include biometric data. State legislators wrote PIPA...
FAQ: Handling Trademark Violations in the U.S.
Many business owners entirely overlook a step that's genuinely beneficial when first starting out. This step is registering a trademark, which puts all of your competitors on notice that you're staking a claim to a corporate image. Many business owners don't stop to consider just how important registering a trademark can...