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.
Correction: Todd Snyder agreed to pay a $345,178 fine to the California Privacy Protection Agency (see 2505050066).
Scholars, teachers and leaders from the Privacy Law Scholars Foundation (PLSF) and the Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) penned a letter Friday noting their concerns over “threats to privacy and democracy” under the Trump administration.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Tools for Humanity CEO Alex Blania used the IAPP Global Privacy Summit as a “sales pitch” opportunity for their “biometric data-based, crypto-powered identity product,” U.K. privacy attorney and entrepreneur Sergio Maldonado said in a post Thursday.
A Fourth Amendment exemption for searches at the border should be overturned because it doesn't fit today's digital age, Stanford law professor Orin Kerr argued in a Tuesday keynote at IAPP Global Privacy Summit for privacy professionals.
Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig challenged privacy professionals at the IAPP Global Policy Summit to “think about how to build a privacy law to give us the right to be left alone again.”
Increased scrutiny at the U.S. border poses heightened digital privacy risks for foreign nationals and even U.S. citizens entering the country, said John Francisco, a lawyer at Woods Rogers, said in a blog Friday.
Privacy must transcend regulation and become entwined with ethical principles such as trust, which is something consumers expect from companies, privacy professionals said during a panel at the Osano Privacy Pro Summit Thursday.