The New Jersey Supreme Court upheld Daniel’s Law in a decision Tuesday, rejecting a journalist’s First Amendment challenge to the statute that aims to protect certain public officials' personal information.
Businesses should be aware of unusual requirements in New Jersey draft rules for implementing the state’s comprehensive privacy law, several law firms warned in blog posts this month.
A bipartisan coalition of 17 states and the District of Columbia on Wednesday gave their approval of TTAM Research Institute's agreement to acquire 23andMe and its data. The group argued in a court filing that TTAM isn't really a third party since its chief, Anne Wojcicki, is 23andMe's founder and former CEO. Even still, some states continued to object to the $305 million sale of the bankrupt biotech company despite TTAM's pledge to adopt additional data privacy protections in response to concerns (see 2506160045).
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U.S. companies can use state privacy laws to better gauge when they’re considered data brokers under DOJ’s data transfer rule, Hunton privacy attorney Michael La Marca said during a Tuesday webinar.
Objections to the proposed sale of genetic data in the 23andMe bankruptcy case continued piling up in court this week. They came from a range of affected parties, including states and customers of the biotechnology company.
EU governments and lawmakers agreed provisionally on a law meant to streamline and harmonize General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) cross-border enforcement processes among national data protection authorities (DPAs), said the Council and the European Parliament on Monday. They also agreed on an early resolution mechanism.
Risk assessments and other preemptive analyses of AI and privacy systems are the best ways of negating harms before they arise, said panelists during an Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) event Monday about California’s proposed AI and privacy regulations.
Expect 23andMe to close its $305 million sale to former CEO Anne Wojcicki and her nonprofit in the “coming weeks,” the company announced Friday.
Last month’s Privacy Law Scholars Conference showed exploding interest in privacy, as well as growing concern about how the government may be weaponizing personal information, said PLSC Chair Ari Waldman in an interview with Privacy Daily earlier this month. The May 28-29 meeting was the privacy scholars’ first conference since penning a letter that raised concerns about the Trump administration.