Buddy AI is now complying with child privacy law, BBB National Programs’ Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) said Wednesday (see 2502260053).
Websites with cookie banners allowing a visitor to opt out may still store cookies or scripts, raising compliance risks, said privacy experts on a Privado panel Thursday.
Buddy AI violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by failing to get parental consent for collecting children’s data and not providing proper notice of its practices, BBB National Programs’ Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) said Wednesday.
New York state's attorney general will likely play a more prominent role in privacy and cybersecurity oversight in 2025, said Morrison Foerster lawyers in a blog post Monday.
Correction: Exterro hosted Wednesday's webinar about the benefits of data deletion, not IAPP (see 2502190062).
Policy debates about age verification methods and privacy should be informed by recent developments in technology, not the assumption that privacy and security are always at odds, Luke Hogg, director of technology policy, and Evan Swarztrauber, senior fellow, Foundation for American Innovation, said in a research paper posted Tuesday.
Congress should pass a national privacy law acknowledging the benefits of digital advertising, the Interactive Advertising Bureau wrote Tuesday.
Congressional Republicans increasingly appear interested in starting with state privacy laws as the basis for a comprehensive federal law, said Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, IAPP D.C. managing director, during an IAPP webinar Thursday. That wasn’t the approach with previous attempts at making a national law, he noted.
Clarification: Odia Kagan's comments weren't about specific cases but about the issue in general (see 2501220068).
Even with an increasing number of privacy laws throughout the country, privacy protection will mean little unless there's adequate enforcement, said a panel on EdTech compliance during the Student Privacy and Parental Consent event. Public Interest Privacy Center (PIPC), Toyo University and George Washington Law hosted the event Friday.