Organizations outside of health care may feel less comfortable complying with a new Colorado law than entities already covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Aleksandra Vold, a BakerHostetler health privacy attorney, told Privacy Daily.
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.
Increased attention on consumers’ universal opt-out rights means more demand for multi-state and automated compliance systems, privacy professionals said Thursday during a Privado webinar.
Regulation doesn't block Europe from leading in AI innovation, but fragmentation in areas such as employment and the capital markets makes it harder to scale up, EU AI Office Director Lucilla Sioli said Thursday on a Center for Strategic & International Studies webinar.
The EU Data Act, which takes effect Sept. 12, is awash with uncertainties that will likely spark challenges from consumer and plaintiff lawyers and impel data protection authorities (DPAs) to "become active very early on," Latham & Watkins data, cyber and tech lawyer Tim Wybitul told Privacy Daily this week.
The FTC should deny a request to vacate an agency order against the CEO of a “stalkerware” app given the egregiousness of the privacy violations, consumer advocates said in recent comments to the FTC (see 2507180024).
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.
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A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied an en banc rehearing of the rejection of a $57 million FCC fine against AT&T for violating the agency's data protection rules. The panel modified its April opinion slightly, removing language that referred to a 2012 5th Circuit decision in U.S. v. Stevens (see 1208210038).
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.