privacy
Taylor Swift Threatening Lawsuit for Private Jet Emission Tracking
Feb. 17, 2024—By Justine May Superstar Taylor Swift has been trending in the news for quite some time. Swift has been touring her massively popular, economy-boosting, Eras Tour.[1] She was named Time Magazine’s 2023 Person of the Year and was Spotify’s most-streamed artist globally in 2023.[2] Her recent romance with Kansas City Chief’s tight end Travis Kelce...
FTC Issues First-Ever Orders Restricting Data Broker Industry
Jan. 31, 2024—By Alvin Zhang Earlier this month, the FTC issued its first-ever bans on the sales of sensitive user data by data broker companies.[1] In orders issued on January 9 and 18, the agency barred digital marketing companies OutLogic (formerly known as X-Model Social) and InMarket Media from sharing, selling, or transferring their users’ sensitive location...
Forget About FERPA: How FOIA Protects Student-Athlete Privacy in the NIL Era
Jan. 18, 2024—Kamron Cox | 26 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 297 (2024) The start of the name, image, and likeness (NIL) era stirred public fervor about the new earning potential of high-profile student-athletes. Since institutional policies and state laws governing NIL require student-athletes to broadly disclose information about their NIL activities to their respective institutions,...
Reconsidering the Merits of a Federal Data Privacy Law
Jan. 16, 2024—By Rachel Davis Americans have expressed growing concerns about the extent of data collection, with many feeling that the security of their information has diminished over time.[1] These concerns are well-founded. The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in major sectors of the economy—banking, healthcare, commerce, education—has exacerbated the need for robust data privacy protections...
The Private Health Information You Share with Mental Health Apps is Not So Private
Jan. 16, 2024—By Phoebe Hebson According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, large breaches of health care data exposed the medical information of over eighty-eight million individuals in the first ten months of 2023 alone.[1] Health data can be lucrative for hackers–TechCrunch in December reported on a hacker offering to sell 300 terabytes of...
Influencing “Kidfluencing”: Protecting Children by Limiting the Right to Profit From “Sharenting”
Jul. 28, 2023—Charlotte Yates | 25 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 845 (2023). Statistics on children’s digital presences are staggering, with an overwhelming majority of children having unique digital identities by age two. The phenomenon of “sharenting” (parents sharing content of their children on social media) can start as early as a sonogram photo or a...
An Epidemic in Enforceability: A Growing Need for Individual Autonomy in Health Care Data-Privacy Protection in an Era of Digital Tracking
Jul. 28, 2023—Madeline Knight | 25 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 749 (2023). The health care system in the United States is under conflicting pressures. From one angle, there is a demand for the highest standard of care, which includes efficient, confidential communications between doctors and patients. From another, however, the technology that has facilitated such...