Guarding the data security and privacy of consumers is just as important for small businesses as it is for large corporations with massive troves of data, said privacy experts and small business owners Monday during a panel hosted by Small Business Privacy.
Privacy advocacy organizations are warning about the dangers of having the federal government collecting medical and health data from citizens after the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on Monday that medical records will be compiled from commercial and federal databases as part of an autism study.
While wearable smart-tech devices can be a benefit in the workplace, companies that want to deploy this technology must ensure they are balancing privacy and security risks of workers and workplaces, said lawyers during a Practising Law Institute webinar Wednesday.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) sued social media platform Snap for violating a kids social media law and the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act (FDUTPA), his office announced Tuesday. Enacted last year, HB-3 prohibits kids 13 and younger from creating social media accounts and requires parental consent for 14- and 15-year-olds to create accounts, among other things.
Though Rhode Island lawmakers seemed in agreement about the importance of protecting data about reproductive health, sexual health, and gender-affirming care, some asked if a comprehensive health bill offering protection of all health data would better serve state residents during a hearing Wednesday in the House Health and Human Services Committee.
Vermont Sen. Philip Baruth (D) and Chief Superior Judge Tom Zonay disapproved of a bill aimed at protecting the sensitive information of certain public servants, including judges, during a hearing Wednesday on H-342 in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
To preserve a free and open internet, a balance needs to be struck between advertising -- specifically targeted ads -- and protecting users' data, an FTC official and industry experts said Tuesday at the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Public Policy & Legal Summit.
With Congress strongly divided along partisan lines, a few common issues unite the two parties, including children’s privacy, said lawyers and policy professionals during a panel Tuesday on the new administration at the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Public Policy & Legal Summit.
Child online privacy and safety laws, on both the federal and state levels, are almost impossible to follow from an operational standpoint, as there is no way to tell in real time the age of those accessing different sites or online platforms, said privacy experts on a Tuesday panel at the IAB Public Policy and Legal Summit.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday vacated a preliminary injunction against Mississippi’s age-verification law and remanded the case to the U.S. District Court for Southern Mississippi, citing the recent ruling in Moody v. NetChoice, LLC that “reframed the analysis for facial challenges.” The 5th Circuit said that the district court in the Mississippi case “should have undertaken more detailed factual analysis” before finding that trade association NetChoice was likely to succeed on its merits.