Tech associations are continuing to push DOJ to extend the April 8 effective date for its data transfer rule (see 2504020022).
Cross-border data and technology transfers are subject to President Donald Trump’s “America First” executive order, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Friday.
The Department of Homeland Security is terminating its data privacy, AI and cyber advisory boards in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump, DHS announced Wednesday.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett are likely the key votes as the U.S. Supreme Court considers Humphrey’s Executor, the 1935 decision that allows Congress to limit a president’s ability to remove senior officials, TechFreedom Internet Policy Counsel Corbin Barthold wrote Tuesday in The Bulwark. “For as long as modern conservative legal thought has existed, there has been a campaign to overturn Humphrey’s Executor,” Barthold wrote. “The decision, which sustained a provision that insulated the five leaders of the [FTC] from being removed without cause, became the foundation for so-called independent agencies,” but it’s not “a strong decision,” he said. President Franklin Roosevelt saw it as “an effort to rebuke him” by a then-conservative SCOTUS, and “modern legal scholars tend to agree.”
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that eyewear company Warby Parker must pay a $1.5 million penalty after a data breach that violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule, the department announced Thursday.
The SEC will provide exemptions to the requirement that certain personally identifiable information be reported to the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT), the commission announced Monday.
President Donald Trump’s firings at the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board “opens the door to politically motivated surveillance under the guise of fighting terrorism,” Center for Democracy & Technology Senior Counsel Greg Nojeim said Thursday (see 2501300049).
Life science companies should be aware of data-sharing restrictions under DOJ’s new rule banning cross-border data transfers to adversarial countries (see 2501070056), compliance attorneys said Monday.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on Tuesday announced a central website for companies seeking guidance on the intersection of privacy and cybersecurity.
The Department of Homeland Security disbanded its 15-member data privacy and integrity advisory committee.