Though boosting AI innovation is one of the EU’s top priorities for the next several years, member states are implementing and interpreting plans and rules differently from one another, said panelists during an IAPP webinar Wednesday. The session covered the European Commission's new mandate of priorities and policies, the EU AI Act, the AI Continent Action Plan and their impact on data governance programs.
A recent court decision on West Virginia's Daniel's Law is the first ruling to find a law protecting the privacy of public officials unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds -- and it will likely influence litigation in other states, said Troutman lawyers in a blog post Aug. 22. It could also lead to West Virginia amending its law, a Klein Moynihan lawyer said Monday.
Despite technology recording a woman's activity on a shopping site, that wasn't enough for her to claim a concrete privacy injury, an appeals court ruled as it dismissed her class-action suit. Celebrating the decision, advocacy groups said merely invoking the word "privacy" doesn't necessarily equate to a legitimate claim.
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) activities at the Social Security Administration (SSA) involved data security lapses that risk the exposure of more than 300 million Americans’ social security information, alleged a protected whistleblower Tuesday. SSA denied that its handling of the data put citizens at risk, however.
Bluesky's decision to block Mississippi IP addresses from its social media platforms highlights the inefficiencies and problems that come with age-verification laws, said consumer privacy and tech industry officials. After the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the state age-verification law to stand last week (see 2508140048), Bluesky announced its response in a statement Friday (see 2508220047).
A federal judge ruled Monday that New Jersey’s Daniel’s Law isn't preempted by the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), refusing to dismiss two voter registration record websites from a consolidated constitutionality case about the statute. However, Judge Harvey Bartle found for the U.S. District Court for New Jersey that the state law is inconsistent with a provision of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and dismissed part of the complaint.
A bevy of entities, including advocacy organizations and media groups like the New York Times, filed amicus briefs earlier this week that blasted California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) Act for infringing on privacy and First Amendment rights, with some saying the statute reigns in nearly every form of online content including news sites.
While recent court decisions have added to a circuit split on the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) of 1988 (see 2508190026), some have also introduced notable interpretations of how the statute should apply, privacy lawyers said in interviews with Privacy Daily.
Checking data flows and technologies on the back end to make certain that consumer opt-out requests are honored is a crucial step in compliance, Kelley Drye privacy lawyers said Thursday during the firm's webinar on opt-out compliance.
This month's D.C. Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision in Pileggi v. Washington Newspaper further widened the circuit split on the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), increasing the likelihood that the U.S. Supreme Court will review the 1988 federal statute, privacy lawyers said in interviews with Privacy Daily. The D.C., 2nd, 6th and 7th circuits have ruled on VPPA cases recently without much uniformity.