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” online advertising-related privacy enforcement, using the GDPR's "legitimate interest" principles as justification, 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.
The FTC will serve as a partner to DOJ as the department works to enforce its new Data Security Program (DSP), Commissioner Melissa Holyoak said at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit on Tuesday evening.
The Connecticut Senate is likely to vote on data privacy and AI legislation in mid-May, state Sen. James Maroney (D) told Privacy Daily on the sidelines of the IAPP Global Privacy Summit on Tuesday.
The FTC on Monday announced that it's finalizing new rules under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), with minor changes from what the Biden administration approved in January (see 2501160068).
Many American advertising technology companies could be “surprised” to find their transactions fall within the scope of DOJ’s data transfer rule due to the presence of Chinese adtech entities, Nancy Libin, a compliance attorney at Davis Wright Tremaine, said Friday (see 2504140047).
Texas will excise the private right of action from its app store age-verification bill, Rep. Caroline Fairly (R) told the House Trade Committee on Tuesday evening.
Companies should be in “full compliance” with DOJ’s data transfer rule by July 8, the department said in a statement Monday (see 2504020067).