The Senate Commerce Committee plans to hold votes on at least three different kids privacy bills this year, Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told us Thursday.
Class action lawsuits surrounding cybersecurity breaches have risen significantly in recent years and 2024 was no exception, lawyers said during a Practising Law Institute event Thursday. Speakers discussed trends from 2024 concerning litigation about data privacy, cybersecurity breaches and the Telephone Consumer Privacy Act.
A federal district court judge seemed skeptical of several tech industry arguments against California’s 2022 Age-Appropriate Design Code Act at oral argument Thursday. However, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Judge Beth Freeman also asked if she should wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to possibly rule on age-verification mandates in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton.
Expect FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson to hold the Biden administration’s kids privacy rule until there’s a Republican majority to amend it, a longtime FTC privacy official said Thursday.
There are grounds for "intense" collaboration among authorities responsible for enforcing EU digital laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and AI Act (AIA), privacy lawyer Petruta Pirvan said during a Sypher webinar Wednesday in Bucharest, Romania. Especially in the context of AI systems that process personal data, logic is strong for regulators cooperating, said Pirvan, a member of the European Commission's GPAI code of practice working group.
In addition to an increase in privacy laws, 2025 is expected to bring an escalation of privacy and data protection claims under old laws, said International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) members on a webinar Wednesday.
New York state health data privacy legislation could soon hit the governor’s desk after the Assembly and Senate quickly passed bills this week. Despite Republican opposition on the Assembly floor Wednesday, members voted 95-41 to pass S-929, the Senate version that was substituted forA-2141. The effectively same bills have been compared to Washington state’s My Health My Data law. The Senate passed S-929 on Tuesday after bypassing its committee process (see 2501210068). Republicans and the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) raised concerns with the legislation, which is supported by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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The FTC’s new requirement that companies obtain separate parental consent when collecting children’s data for nonessential business purposes is a key change compliance professionals should fully understand, attorneys said Tuesday.
Almost all comprehensive state privacy laws include enforcement language against AI-related discrimination, so additional efforts to regulate automated decisions could be redundant, Minnesota Rep. Steve Elkins (D) told Privacy Daily in a recent interview.