Comments are due July 21 on the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s updated general terms for digital ad transactions, IAB announced Tuesday.
Reducing the number of exemptions in states’ comprehensive privacy laws, “particularly where they may seem arbitrary and carve out protections for large industries, may serve as low-hanging fruit for regulators,” said University of California-Los Angeles law students Nicola Haubold and J.Y. Khoo in a Monday op-ed for TechPolicy.press.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals will buy 23andMe’s assets for $256 million and work with a court-appointed privacy ombudsman to ensure customer data is protected, the pharmaceutical company announced Monday (see 2505060062).
The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) plans to “relax” online advertising-related privacy enforcement, using the General Data Protection Regulation's "legitimate interest" principles as justification, Executive Director-Regulatory Risk Stephen Almond told us in April at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington (see 2504280042). Almond said regulators will look to loosen enforcement standards under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).
The California Privacy Protection Agency's $345,000 fine for menswear retailer Todd Snyder last week (see 2505050066) put companies that do business in the state “on notice” that they shouldn’t collect excessive information to verify consumers’ identities, McCarter & English privacy attorney Erin Prest blogged Tuesday: “This is one detail at which the regulators are specifically looking and errors can be costly.”
Congress should pass a federal privacy law that grants the FTC exclusive enforcement authority and doesn’t include a private right of action, Free State Foundation’s Andrew Long said Friday.
The U.S. has entered a “golden age” of privacy regulation, but states are crafting ineffective laws that don’t fully protect consumers, George Washington University Law School professor Daniel Solove said Thursday at the Privacy + Security Summit.
Employing reasonable practices and security measures can help companies comply with the multitude of state privacy laws, said HP and Maryland attorneys during a panel at the Privacy + Security Forum Spring Academy on Thursday.
Regulators should apply “extra scrutiny to menstruation apps because they may process and collect highly sensitive health data that requires additional protections and safety measures,” Privacy International (PI) said Tuesday in a report on the privacy of period-tracking apps.
Implementing cookie banners is no longer one-size-fits-all and should be tailored to applicable state laws, said a panelist during the Privacy + Security Forum spring academy on Wednesday.