Maine should follow “where the puck’s going” on comprehensive privacy laws in the states, said the legislature's joint Judiciary Committee House Chair Amy Kuhn (D) during the panel's hearing Monday. That means adopting a bill, like Kuhn’s LD-1822, based on data minimization rather than notice and consent, she said. However, two alternative Maine privacy bills would follow the approach included in state privacy laws prior to Maryland’s comprehensive law.
A disconnect exists between legislatures, the privacy laws they create and the litigation that results from them, said panelists during a Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA) event on privacy litigation trends Thursday. Instead, this ecosystem results in great confusion, prompting a rise in privacy law-related cases, they said.
An Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) decision to fine TikTok $600 million for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) breaches (see 2505020001) highlights the increasing scrutiny on transfers to and from a broader range of countries than just the U.S., EU and U.K., IAPP Research Director Joe Jones said Friday.
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.
A possible Vermont version of Daniel’s Law (H-342) is “not dead, but it is not moving,” state Rep. Monique Priestley (D) said Thursday on Vermont Perspective, a radio show on WDEV. After the show, Priestley told us in a phone interview that another piece of legislation, her comprehensive privacy bill, remains “very much in play.”
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.
An appeals court narrowed liability under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) Thursday, ruling it only applied to the disclosure of information that would allow an ordinary person to learn a specific individual's video-watching history.
California Privacy Protection Agency Chairperson Jennifer Urban raised concerns Thursday about the extent of recent changes to draft rules on automated decision-making technology (ADMT), cybersecurity and other issues. “We’ve really cut to the bone, in terms of what is in line with the statute's requirements for the regulations we need to do, and in terms of the relative value to businesses and the relative value to the people … whose personal information is at stake,” she said at a livestreamed CPPA board meeting Thursday. Staff said the new draft reduced potential business costs in the first year by nearly two-thirds.
Privacy and data are at the heart of larger concerns about rights and freedoms, and consumers and corporations need to be clearer about their knowledge, understanding and intent around data collection and use, said data experts during a Tuesday webinar that privacy compliance vendor TrustArc hosted.
Microsoft supports regulatory efforts to simplify compliance with privacy laws globally, said Cari Benn, the company’s associate general counsel-privacy, accessibility and regulatory affairs, in an interview last week at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit. Meanwhile, as Microsoft embraces AI, it's striving to apply privacy principles to the emerging technology.