Privacy lawyers “use and, probably, abuse the idea that there's a patchwork of laws,” acknowledged Jeff Knight of Bricker Graydon during a webinar Thursday. “It elicits an eye roll from us, too.”
The Public Interest Privacy Center (PIPC) staff wants the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) to protect all personal identifiable information (PII) accessible to school systems, regardless of how it is collected.
Correction: IAPP's Privacy Governance Report was published in November 2024. On January 28, IAPP published an updated DPA directory with research on the existence of privacy or data protection laws in countries around the world; and in addition, Joe Jones commented on the earlier report (see 2501280003).
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse announced Tuesday the launch of Data Breach Chronology 2.0, an updated database for tracking data breach notifications in the U.S.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) penned letters to the attorneys general of Florida, Texas, Missouri and Arkansas Tuesday urging them to investigate pregnancy crisis centers (CPCs) who may have misrepresented that the information given to them by patients would be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, said Corynne McSherry, EFF’s legal director, in a blog post Wednesday.
Almost half the states with consumer privacy laws get failing grades for protecting consumer data and none received an “A,” the Electronic Privacy Information Center said Tuesday.
Support for privacy laws within the U.S. is growing, but legislation should balance tenets of the free and open internet with maintaining data privacy, according to the results of an Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) 2024 consumer survey released Monday. Conducted in the U.S. and other countries where national data privacy legislation exists, the survey sought views on the security of personal data and on the use of targeted advertising on the internet.
Illinois employers must comply with new privacy requirements under changes to the Illinois Personnel Record Review Act (IPPRA) that took effect this month, VedderPrice attorneys blogged last week.
Most privacy professionals say their jobs have become more stressful during the past five years, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association said Tuesday. ISACA said it surveyed 1,600 privacy professionals worldwide for a 2025 report.
Virtual private networks, or VPNs, aren't the effective loopholes to age-verification laws that many think they are, Electronic Frontier Foundation staff said in a blog post Friday. Currently, 19 states have laws that require age verification before a user can access sites containing adult content, said bloggers Paige Collings, EFF senior speech and privacy activist, and Rindala Alajaji, EFF legislative activist.