The Senate voted 50-46 Thursday to confirm Mark Meador as an FTC commissioner, as expected (see 2503030044).
DOJ’s data transfer rule is scheduled to go into effect April 8, the department confirmed Wednesday.
The U.S. District Court for Northern California on Thursday granted NetChoice’s request for a preliminary injunction against California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (CAADCA) aimed at protecting the privacy and safety of children online. California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) and his office are enjoined from enforcing the act.
Honda must pay $632,500 and change various privacy practices under an agreement with the California Privacy Protection Agency announced Wednesday. The CPPA board decided Friday to approve a settlement resolving the privacy agency's claims that the car manufacturer’s North American subsidiary violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
National Public Data faces a $46,000 fine from the California Privacy Protection Agency for failing to register as a data broker and pay an annual fee, the CPPA said Thursday. It's the CPPA’s sixth action stemming from an investigative sweep of California Delete Act compliance that it announced Oct. 30.
A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law forcing ByteDance to divest TikTok, citing Congress’ “well-supported national security concerns.”
The FTC is finalizing changes to its children’s online privacy regulations “to set new requirements around the collection, use and disclosure of children’s personal information and give parents new tools and protections to help them control what data is provided to third parties about their children,” it said in a Thursday news release.