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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Increased FTC enforcement and expanding state regulatory requirements mean it's crucial that advertisers ensure their consumer health data activity complies with consumer privacy laws, said panelists during a Wiley health advertising webinar Tuesday.
The increased ties between industry and government have led to more data collection, which has had serious implications for democracy, panelists told a Columbia University Knight First Amendment Institute forum on surveillance and democracy at the National Press Club on Friday.
In its latest proposal on risk assessment requirements, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) appears to try to seal up potential constitutional holes that took down California’s age-appropriate design code (AADC) law, Squire Patton attorney Alan Friel said in an interview last week. Ahead of a June 2 deadline to file comments (see 2505020034), privacy lawyers at many firms are combing through the latest tweaks in a highly watched rulemaking on automated decision-making technology (ADMT), changes to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and other topics.
The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) appears to be holding despite Trump administration actions in connection with the FTC and Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), Irish Data Protection Commissioner Dale Sunderland said during a May 14 interview at the IAPP AI Governance Global Europe conference in Dublin.
The U.K. digital identity industry is feeling reassured about the upcoming GOV.UK Wallet following a meeting with, and apology from, the government, according to Iain Corby, executive director of the Age Verification Providers Association (AVPA).