States may take the lead on enforcement during the second Trump administration, privacy professionals said during a panel Wednesday at Privado’s Bridge Summit. Regulators, so far, seem most focused on protecting location, health and kids’ data, as well as overseeing data broker registrations, they added.
Software company Onerep released an updated version of YourControl, a free tool that manages the exposure of a consumer's data from major consumer reporting agencies, the company announced Thursday. The update now includes public and non-public data brokers, Onerep said.
The age-verification technology at issue in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case raises major privacy concerns, said Jennifer Huddleston, senior fellow in technology policy at the Cato Institute. Huddleston discussed with Free State Foundation adjunct senior fellow Mike O'Rielly the justices' argument earlier this month on a Texas age-verification law (see 2501130012 and 2501150073).
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.