TTAM Research Institute announced on Monday it had completed the acquisition of biotechnology company 23andMe through its bankruptcy sale, which closed on Friday, according to a document filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Eastern Missouri.
App store age-verification laws like those in Texas will result in costly children’s privacy compliance for general audience-directed apps, ACT | The App Association said Friday.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau on Wednesday announced compliance tool updates for digital advertising companies.
Combining two vendors’ data-privacy services, Didomi will acquire SourcePoint under a deal announced Tuesday.
Advocacy groups that disagreed with the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that upheld a Texas age-verification law for accessing adult sites (see 2506270041) argued the decision is significant because it could embolden other states to expand the definition of off-limits material, further challenging the First Amendment and ultimately letting politicians make content decisions. Another worry is the harm the decision could bring to the LGBTQ community, some groups said.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) called for "enforceable legal obligations" that make risk assessments "mandatory" and afford "public access" to them, ensuring citizens can identify "how harms are mitigated and compliance is ensured."
The American Medical Association will support legislation and regulations to protect the privacy of individual neurological data and guard against discrimination potentially caused by neurotechnologies, the organization said Tuesday in a resolution its House of Delegates adopted.
Cookies and other tracking technologies were considered simple tools to enhance website users' experience but have become "ground zero" in the data-protection consent space, privacy and cybersecurity attorney Scott Loughlin said at a June 12 Hogan Lovells webinar.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- It’s important to think about the value proposition for users when developing a privacy product, Miguel Guevara, a member of Google’s data protection team, said Tuesday at the USENIX Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR) conference.
Representatives from Apple and Google highlighted some company differences in philosophy regarding data retention practices during separate panels at the Future of Privacy Forum’s DC Privacy Forum on Wednesday.