While many believe that privacy laws can serve as a basis for AI regulation, AI may actually help determine privacy rules instead, said privacy professionals on a webinar hosted by George Washington University Law School Professor Daniel Solove on Wednesday.
Support for privacy laws within the U.S. is growing, but legislation should balance tenets of the free and open internet with maintaining data privacy, according to the results of an Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) 2024 consumer survey released Monday. Conducted in the U.S. and other countries where national data privacy legislation exists, the survey sought views on the security of personal data and on the use of targeted advertising on the internet.
Assessments around AI should be done altogether and not split into separate categories of risk, privacy, cybersecurity or other issues, said chief privacy officers at an International Association of Privacy Professionals webinar Tuesday.
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Friday that a plaintiff didn't allege actual injury in a class-action suit that claimed medical services group Christie Business Holdings negligently failed to protect its patients’ private personal data when an unknown third party gained unauthorized access to one of the business's emails.
Class action lawsuits surrounding cybersecurity breaches have risen significantly in recent years and 2024 was no exception, lawyers said during a Practising Law Institute event Thursday. Speakers discussed trends from 2024 concerning litigation about data privacy, cybersecurity breaches and the Telephone Consumer Privacy Act.
In addition to an increase in privacy laws, 2025 is expected to bring an escalation of privacy and data protection claims under old laws, said International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) members on a webinar Wednesday.
New technologies such as the use of pixels have led to a surge -- beginning in 2022 -- of litigation involving older privacy laws because newer legislation lacks a private right of action, privacy lawyers said during a webinar Wednesday.
It's unclear how the U.S. Supreme Court will rule in a case involving a Texas law aimed at preventing minors from accessing adult websites, but a majority of the justices during oral argument Wednesday signaled their concern over minors’ access to obscene materials.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in a case about a Texas age-verification law aimed at preventing minors from accessing adult websites. However, in addition to First Amendment implications, the case could become much broader, centering on technology that verifies the ages of website visitors younger and older than 18 and whether that process infringes on their rights.
In what may be the first state enforcement action under a comprehensive privacy law, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) sued Allstate for the alleged unlawful collection, use and sale of the location data from Texans’ cellphones through software secretly embedded into mobile apps like Life360. Allstate and its subsidiary data analytics company Arity used the data to raise insurance rates, Paxton alleged at the Texas District Court of Montgomery County.