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.

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Oregon privacy regulators noticed a spike in consumers complaining about the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and how the government may be handing their personal information, the state DOJ said Monday. Also, the department released a Q1 2025 report on enforcement of the state’s comprehensive privacy law.

Child online privacy and safety laws, on both the federal and state levels, are almost impossible to follow from an operational standpoint, as there is no way to tell in real time the age of those accessing different sites or online platforms, said privacy experts on a Tuesday panel at the IAB Public Policy and Legal Summit.

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.

South Carolina senators are undaunted by potential lawsuits against a proposed state law requiring social media companies to adopt an age-appropriate design code (AADC), said Senate Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee members at a livestreamed hearing Monday. The panel voted unanimously by voice to send the identical S-268 and H-3431 to the Senate floor. The House passed an earlier version of H-3431 in February (see 2502200059).

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).

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday vacated a preliminary injunction against Mississippi’s age-verification law and remanded the case to the U.S. District Court for Southern Mississippi, citing the recent ruling in Moody v. NetChoice, LLC that “reframed the analysis for facial challenges.” The 5th Circuit said that the district court in the Mississippi case “should have undertaken more detailed factual analysis” before finding that trade association NetChoice was likely to succeed on its merits.

Neurotechnology is the next big thing in privacy law and our minds are the last vestige of privacy, Cooley lawyers said Wednesday during a webinar.