NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) refiled a lawsuit Friday against Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) over HB-3, which the groups allege violates the First Amendment and puts cybersecurity and privacy risks on state residents. The same day at another federal district court, Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown (D) sought to dismiss a separate NetChoice lawsuit against the Maryland Age-Appropriate Design Code (MAADC) Act.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals took a broad view of what it means to be a videotape service provider under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) on Friday in an opinion in case 24-1290. The plaintiffs allege the transmission of their personal information from a website where users can watch old TV shows to Facebook is in violation of the VPPA.
Regulation of AI tools and systems is all based on the same data governance principles used in privacy law, and it’s important for this regulation to be tackled collaboratively on a state level, said a Texas legislator and privacy and emerging tech experts during a regulatory panel at the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) AI and Technology for Marketers Conference Friday.
With emerging technologies and issues in the health care space, the role of privacy officers must also evolve and adapt to stay relevant in a changing landscape, said a panel of privacy leaders during the National HIPAA Summit Thursday.
Preparation and understanding issues are key when responding to data breaches in the healthcare sector, said state privacy officials during a panel on federal and state enforcement of privacy and security violations at the National HIPAA Summit Wednesday.
States must step in to protect healthcare privacy when the federal administration is likely to try and undermine the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's (HIPAA) Privacy Rule, said privacy lawyers in a keynote fireside chat on the politics of healthcare privacy at the National HIPAA Summit Tuesday.
The bankruptcy of biotechnology company 23andMe is raising privacy concerns about the future of customers' sensitive genetic data. Democratic and Republican state AGs and the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office said they're monitoring the situation.
When thinking about global partnerships, especially those in research and emerging technology, the U.S. must ensure that privacy and security are balanced with the need for effective collaboration, Don Graves, former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, told the American Bar Association's Privacy and Emerging Technology National Institute Friday.
Given the expanding universe of state privacy laws, often with different requirements, a reasonable compliance approach is to follow the most stringent law, a panel of privacy lawyers said during the American Bar Association's Privacy and Emerging Technology National Institute Friday. It's likely that the strictest law will cover other states' requirements, they said.
Though the global flow of data and information is the basis for so many systems, having protections that ensure foreign adversaries and other bad actors can’t gain access to the data is crucial, said a panel of privacy lawyers and security experts at the American Bar Association's Privacy and Emerging Technology National Institute Friday. Accordingly, Justice's new data transfer rule is playing a major role, panelists said.