Privacy is disappearing from professionals’ titles at some companies as they adopt new responsibilities related to AI and data governance more generally, according to an IAPP op-ed Thursday.
A new Interactive Advertising Bureau program aims to help digital advertisers assess vendors for data privacy compliance, IAB said Wednesday.
Neural data laws and mental privacy had a moment last year, reflecting the fact that “2025 was a really big moment for neurotechnology” in general, said Nita Farahany, Duke Law professor. She spoke about privacy of the mind with Daniel Solove, George Washington University Law School professor, during a webinar Wednesday.
HIPAA isn’t enough to protect the privacy of consumer health information in the digital age, the Electronic Privacy Information Center said in a report released Wednesday. Requiring a strong data minimization standard may be the best solution, EPIC said. “We face a health data privacy crisis caused by unregulated digital technologies, weak privacy laws and the criminalization of many forms of health care,” Sara Geoghegan, EPIC senior counsel, said during a Wednesday webinar about the report.
Private litigation is essential to effective privacy enforcement, said Daniel Solove, George Washington University Law School professor, in a paper posted Monday.
Enforcement can ramp up in periods when less legislation is going into effect, panelists said during a webinar Thursday hosted by the vendor Osano.
Momentum for requiring age verification for online access is growing rapidly and AgeKey looks like the best system for conducting verification, two experts on digital ethics wrote in an op-ed for TechPolicy.Press.
Privacy and data security will be top-of-mind in 2026 for state regulators and the FTC, especially concerning children and teens, said Holland & Knight lawyer Anthony DiResta in a consumer protection podcast episode recently.
Though data management of employee information is “increasingly complex,” implementing sound privacy policies is one of the first steps toward ensuring compliance and reducing risk, said two Woods Rogers lawyers in a podcast Thursday.
Mobile apps acting as authorized agents are submitting a growing number of data subject requests under state privacy laws to Fisher Phillips clients, the law firm blogged Monday.