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.
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).