Meta can use data from publicly accessible user profiles on Facebook and Instagram for AI training in Germany, the Cologne Higher Regional Court ruled Friday. Meta didn't immediately comment.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding President Donald Trump’s recent board firings suggests FTC Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya shouldn’t be reinstated, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson and the Trump administration said in a filing Friday (see 2505060040).
Delaying the Maine privacy bill’s effective date gives the state an “escape hatch if things go awry in Maryland,” said House Chair Amy Kuhn (D) at a Maine Judiciary Committee meeting Friday. The panel weighed an amendment to Kuhn’s comprehensive measure (LD-1822), which features a data-minimization standard similar to the one in the Maryland privacy law. Also, members narrowed to two, from three, the number of comprehensive privacy bills pending before the committee.
Since data-protection litigation and enforcement are on the rise, companies can't assume data practices instituted years ago will insulate them from compliance issues, said privacy experts during a webinar hosted Thursday by Privado, a privacy vendor. New regulations and older laws leveraged to cover evolving technologies have made overseeing data and privacy a corporate priority, they said.
A substantive amendment to a Maine privacy bill would color in what data is allowed to be collected under its Maryland-like data minimization requirement. House Chair Amy Kuhn (D) on Thursday released the proposed amendment to her LD-1822, which also moves back the bill’s effective date, addresses mergers and bankruptcies, and makes many wording changes. The joint Judiciary Committee plans to consider the draft amendment at a work session Friday.
Grocery chain Kroger collects vast amounts of personal data about its customers and makes inferences based on it, resulting in different shopping experiences, Consumer Reports (CR) said Wednesday. While Kroger responded that the CR report is misleading, a California legislator said it supports his argument for passing his surveillance-pricing bill.
The European Commission Wednesday unveiled its latest proposals that are intended to reduce administrative costs for European business by simplifying a range of rules, including in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR change, which differed slightly from what was expected, drew mixed reactions from stakeholders.
State attorneys general last week made unfounded claims against House Republicans’ proposed AI moratorium, Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., told us Tuesday. The moratorium doesn’t block states from enforcing traditional consumer protection laws, he added.
President Donald Trump’s recent firings at the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board were illegal based on congressional intent and the Constitution, a federal judge ruled Wednesday (see 2502250052).
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