Legislation significantly revamping Israel's data protection law took effect Thursday, but the country's privacy watchdog said it will delay enforcement of one of its provisions until October.
Industry will likely turn to the FCC to address a 6th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court decision on Wednesday upholding the agency’s 2024 data breach notification rules. When the rules were approved, now Chairman Brendan Carr and former Republican Commissioner Nathan Simington dissented.
A bipartisan coalition of 37 state attorneys general urged Instagram to make changes to its new location-sharing feature, citing privacy concerns, in a letter Wednesday.
Companies should master the fundamentals of privacy, which will form a solid foundation when handling new privacy regulations, enforcement actions and emerging technologies like AI, said Sourcepoint’s Chief Privacy Officer Julie Rubash and Brian Kane, the chief operating officer of the privacy software company that was recently acquired by Didomi (see 2507080040).
While using data can help build meaningful connections with customers, businesses need to do so effectively and transparently, executives said Tuesday at the Association of National Advertisers' Masters of Data Conference.
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People are increasingly using general-purpose AI chatbots like ChatGPT for emotional and mental health support, but many don’t realize that regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) fail to cover these sensitive conversations, a Duke University paper published last month found. Industry self-regulation seems unlikely to solve the issue, which may disproportionately affect vulnerable populations, said Pardis Emami-Naeini, a computer science professor at Duke and one of the report’s authors.
The definition of consumer under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) is narrow, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said Tuesday. The appeals court affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a case against the Washington Examiner that alleged it violated the federal statute. A concurring opinion from one of the judges said the VPPA seems outdated and suggested that consumer was not the only term in the VPPA that should be narrowly defined.
London's High Court of Justice Monday tossed a challenge by nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation to provisions of the U.K. Online Safety Act (OSA) it claimed could jeopardize the privacy and safety of Wikipedia contributors, but stressed that contributors must be protected.
New Jersey’s proposed privacy rules might be the most “aggressive” in the country, particularly the potential limitations on AI-related data scraping, attorneys and a tech industry official said in interviews.