Data minimization is an evolving regulatory landscape that is garnering increased awareness lately as trust and transparency become more of a focus for organizations and data breaches highlight the impact of having extra data, said panelists during a webinar hosted by compliance vendor TrustArc on Thursday.
Google will appeal a court ruling that it violated privacy rights of almost 100 million users who asked the company not to track their data, a company spokesperson said following the jury verdict Wednesday. Meanwhile, the $425 million in damages against Google seem low, a privacy attorney said.
Software company PowerSchool’s failure to protect the personal information of almost 900,000 Texas schoolchildren and educators late last year was a violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act, alleged Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in a lawsuit Wednesday (see 2509030050). Texas joined Tennessee (see 2505120026) and a class-action in California (see 2501220057) in suing the company over the incident.
Software company PowerSchool’s failure to protect the personal information of nearly 900,000 Texas schoolchildren and educators is a violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act, alleged Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in a lawsuit Wednesday.
A federal judge dismissed several claims against Chinese technology company ByteDance, including that it violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). But in the Friday ruling, U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois Judge Georgia Alexakis allowed a claim ByteDance violated the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), as well as the restitution and unjust enrichment claim against the company, to continue in the privacy case.
A case alleging the NHL violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by using Facebook's Meta tracking pixel on its website without user knowledge or consent should be dismissed, U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Moses said Friday. Moses argued that the plaintiffs failed to state a claim under the statute in case 1:23-cv-02083, Zachary Joiner vs. NHL.
Consumers filed 214 complaints in the first year since the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA) took effect, with the majority concerning online data brokers, according to a report from the state’s DOJ. The right to delete data was consumers' top complaint.
A circuit split centering on interpretations of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) of 1988 suggests the U.S. Supreme Court could decide to review two cases about the statute simultaneously.
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.