Cassandre Coyer

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Cassandre Coyer |Tonya Riley |Jorja Siemons

Chief Petty Officer Lee Schmidt was stuck in morning traffic en route from Norfolk, Va., to his job in Virginia Beach when he first noticed the “weird little camera” outside a CVS: an automated license plate reader. Schmidt began seeing the cameras everywhere after that first sighting in late 2023—outside banks, near schools, and “just to get on the interstate” heading to work. “You cannot dodge these,” said Schmidt, now retired from his Navy electronics technician job.

1 week ago | ij.org | Tonya Riley |Jorja Siemons |Cassandre Coyer |Reilly Stephens

Chief Petty Officer Lee Schmidt was stuck in morning traffic en route from Norfolk, Va., to his job in Virginia Beach when he first noticed the “weird little camera” outside a CVS: an automated license plate reader. Schmidt began seeing the cameras everywhere after that first sighting in late 2023—outside banks, near schools, and “just to get on the interstate” heading to work. “You cannot dodge these,” said Schmidt, now retired from his Navy electronics technician job.

2 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Cassandre Coyer

As EU AI Act provisions come into force, many corporate legal teams have chosen to lean into compliance regimes already tested by another EU law: the General Data Protection Regulation. The two measures share a common core—including risk assessments, a focus on fundamental rights, and data governance—that has allowed many companies to prepare for the world’s first comprehensive AI regulation without having to overhaul their existing processes or deploy significant additional resources.

3 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Cassandre Coyer

Utah’s one-of-a-kind law creating new data portability and interoperability requirements for social media companies is set to usher a broad set of US platforms into a costly and complex era of compliance. The law that allows individuals to transfer their data between social media sites has sparked interest from a half-dozen other states and signals a paradigm shift in control of personal information once it’s posted online, bill sponsor Utah state Rep. Doug Fiefia (R) said.

3 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Cassandre Coyer

Illinois State Police and state officials convinced a federal judge to throw out claims that “warrantless” monitoring of drivers in Cook County using automated license plate readers violates the Fourth Amendment. US District Judge Martha M. Pacold found that the state’s installation and use of ALPRs is not a “search” subject to Fourth Amendment scrutiny, according to the opinion filed Monday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.