The GDPR’s Article 5 data-processing principles will likely remain intact, but there’s potential for compromise on revisions to other data-processing requirements in forthcoming negotiations, a center-right digital policy advisor for the European Parliament said Friday at the Privacy + Security Forum spring academy.
While the Biden administration’s FTC focused on platform accountability for child safety, the Trump FTC appears far more concerned with strengthening parental control to protect kids' privacy and shield them from online harm, former FTC officials said Thursday at the Privacy + Security Forum Spring Academy.
There’s a checklist companies can complete to show they’re operating in “good faith” to comply with DOJ’s Data Security Program before full enforcement begins July 8 (see 2504140047), Orrick attorneys said Wednesday at the Privacy + Security Forum Spring Academy event.
A California Assembly committee cleared a surveillance pricing bill Tuesday that would prohibit companies from using personal data to set customized prices for consumers.
Lobbying numbers show the tech industry backed up its public support for the Take It Down Act with Q1 2025 spending focused in part on the deepfake porn bill.
Congress should update the Privacy Act with statutory limits on exemptions for government data-handling and extend protections for immigrants living in the U.S., privacy advocates told Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Mass., in comments this week.
The House voted 409-2 Monday to pass the Take It Down Act (S-146), despite privacy-related objections from encryption advocates.
The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) plans to “relax” its enforcement approach under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by year's end, Executive Director-Regulatory Risk Stephen Almond told us Thursday at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Thursday he understands the “very strong reactions” and privacy concerns surrounding his biometric identity company Tools for Humanity (TFH).
House Commerce Committee Republicans are “committed to moving” a federal privacy bill “this Congress,” a committee staffer said at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit on Thursday.