Despite the increased availability of parental controls on devices and digital platforms, just half of parents -- or fewer -- utilize them to protect their children online, according to a study from the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), the organization announced Wednesday.
It’s unclear if enforcers like the FTC can require the buyer of 23andMe to honor the company’s privacy policies if the buyer doesn’t publicly state its intention to do so, according to Reed Freeman, co-chair of the ArentFox privacy and data security group.
Legislators can’t address kids’ safety issues without also considering kids’ privacy issues because they're intertwined, privacy attorney Paula Bruening said Tuesday during an Innovators Network webinar.
Comments are due July 21 on the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s updated general terms for digital ad transactions, IAB announced Tuesday.
Reducing the number of exemptions in states’ comprehensive privacy laws, “particularly where they may seem arbitrary and carve out protections for large industries, may serve as low-hanging fruit for regulators,” said University of California-Los Angeles law students Nicola Haubold and J.Y. Khoo in a Monday op-ed for TechPolicy.press.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals will buy 23andMe’s assets for $256 million and work with a court-appointed privacy ombudsman to ensure customer data is protected, the pharmaceutical company announced Monday (see 2505060062).
The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) plans to “relax” online advertising-related privacy enforcement, using the General Data Protection Regulation's "legitimate interest" principles as justification, Executive Director-Regulatory Risk Stephen Almond told us in April at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington (see 2504280042). Almond said regulators will look to loosen enforcement standards under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).
The California Privacy Protection Agency's $345,000 fine for menswear retailer Todd Snyder last week (see 2505050066) put companies that do business in the state “on notice” that they shouldn’t collect excessive information to verify consumers’ identities, McCarter & English privacy attorney Erin Prest blogged Tuesday: “This is one detail at which the regulators are specifically looking and errors can be costly.”
Congress should pass a federal privacy law that grants the FTC exclusive enforcement authority and doesn’t include a private right of action, Free State Foundation’s Andrew Long said Friday.
The U.S. has entered a “golden age” of privacy regulation, but states are crafting ineffective laws that don’t fully protect consumers, George Washington University Law School professor Daniel Solove said Thursday at the Privacy + Security Summit.