While immigrants seem to be the current target of mass-data collection, the federal government's collection of massive amounts of personal information has implications for other populations, including those who speak out against Washington, panelists said during a webinar Wednesday hosted by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and the Leadership Conference’s Center for Civil Rights & Technology.
The Michigan Senate Committee on Finance, Insurance and Consumer Protection cleared a comprehensive privacy bill during its meeting Wednesday on a 5-3 vote. A bipartisan group of senators recently introduced SB-359, or the personal data privacy act (see 2506060043). The legislation comes after Michigan failed to pass a similar consumer privacy measure last year (see 2412300043).
Senators raised national security concerns and urged bankrupt 23andMe to obtain specific consent from customers before it sells their personal data during a Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday. Meanwhile, on Tuesday, several groups objected to the company's bankruptcy sale in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Eastern Missouri.
23andMe defended its planned sale in a statement to us Tuesday, decrying a lawsuit and separate objection filed Monday by a bipartisan group of nearly 30 state attorneys general. The AGs opposed the proposed sale of collected genetic information without each customer's consent. Founder Anne Wojcicki and interim CEO Joe Selsavage defended the company's privacy practices during a House Oversight Committee hearing Tuesday.
Studying the fundamentals surrounding AI and privacy before imposing regulation will help create a future where generative AI's benefits can coexist with privacy rights, panelists said Monday during a webinar of the Federalist Society Regulatory Transparency Project.
The Trump administration will back off its demand for states to send it the personal data of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) announced Tuesday.
A federal court halted enforcement of a Florida social media law that would prohibit kids 13 and younger from creating social media accounts, requires parental consent for 14- and 15-year-olds to create them and uses age-verification to implement these restrictions. The ruling by the U.S. District Court for Northern Florida on Tuesday granted a request for a preliminary injunction brought by NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), who say HB-3 violates the First Amendment and poses privacy risks.
A bill aimed at amending the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) may decrease the number of lawsuits if it's passed, but plaintiffs’ attorneys could simply find other avenues to bring claims, privacy lawyers who often represent defendants in such cases said.
Since data-protection litigation and enforcement are on the rise, companies can't assume data practices instituted years ago will insulate them from compliance issues, said privacy experts during a webinar hosted Thursday by Privado, a privacy vendor. New regulations and older laws leveraged to cover evolving technologies have made overseeing data and privacy a corporate priority, they said.
Grocery chain Kroger collects vast amounts of personal data about its customers and makes inferences based on it, resulting in different shopping experiences, Consumer Reports (CR) said Wednesday. While Kroger responded that the CR report is misleading, a California legislator said it supports his argument for passing his surveillance-pricing bill.