The emergence of state privacy laws means that there are several standards or policies that companies and businesses must follow when defining and de-identifying sensitive information, said a panel of experts at the American Bar Association's Privacy and Emerging Technology National Institute event Thursday.
The new year has brought “escalating state regulatory demands and stricter enforcement reshaping business practices,” Proskauer privacy lawyers blogged Monday.
Privacy attorney David Patariu of The CISO Law Firm spoke March 13 at the IAPP Data Protection Intensive conference (see 2503130016).
Correction: Vermont Senate Institutions Committee Chair Wendy Harrison is a Democrat (see 2503140056).
Digital advertisers "are still grappling with defining the boundaries of sensitive personal information, such as health data and minors’ information,” according to an Interactive Advertising Bureau survey released Monday.
Businesses must take consent seriously in 2025, privacy experts said on an Osano webinar Monday.
Google slammed Meta this week for supporting state bills requiring app stores to verify users’ ages. However, an advocacy group for children online rejected the idea of a single best way to verify ages.
There are "subjective differences" in how those within the privacy team and the rest of an organization think about data protection Ethyca CEO Cillian Kieran said Wednesday during an Ethyca webinar. Terms like data mapping, data inventory and data labeling may have different interpretations depending on whether you’re talking to the privacy team, engineers or the legal team, he said.
Despite originating as a way to protect children from harms in the digital world, age-verification practices have morphed into a serious risk to privacy and digital rights, Rindala Alajaji, legislative activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), wrote in a blog Friday. “What started as a misguided attempt to protect minors from ‘explicit’ content online has spiraled into a tangled mess of privacy-invasive surveillance schemes affecting skincare products, dating apps, and even diet pills, threatening everyone’s right to privacy."
Correction: More businesses will be willing to fight, "as opposed to settling,” after a recent series of favorable California Invasion of Privacy Act rulings, said Usama Kahf, partner at Fisher Philips (see 2503030050).