Increased attention on consumers’ universal opt-out rights means more demand for multi-state and automated compliance systems, privacy professionals said Thursday during a Privado webinar.
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The FTC should deny a request to vacate an agency order against the CEO of a “stalkerware” app given the egregiousness of the privacy violations, consumer advocates said in recent comments to the FTC (see 2507180024).
Despite technology recording a woman's activity on a shopping site, that wasn't enough for her to claim a concrete privacy injury, an appeals court ruled as it dismissed her class-action suit. Celebrating the decision, advocacy groups said merely invoking the word "privacy" doesn't necessarily equate to a legitimate claim.
California businesses launched a media blitz Monday against possible AI regulations under consideration in the state legislature, calling instead for “pro-growth” rules.
It’s time to start “operationalizing the laundry list of requirements currently in the Colorado AI Act because it looks like a last-minute reprieve is unlikely,” said Denver-based privacy attorney Josh Hansen of Shook Hardy, as state legislators returned for the fifth day of their special session Monday.
California should maintain verification safeguards in its Delete Act rules, advertising groups said in comments to the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) due Aug. 18 (see 2507310053).
While recent court decisions have added to a circuit split on the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) of 1988 (see 2508190026), some have also introduced notable interpretations of how the statute should apply, privacy lawyers said in interviews with Privacy Daily.
Checking data flows and technologies on the back end to make certain that consumer opt-out requests are honored is a crucial step in compliance, Kelley Drye privacy lawyers said Thursday during the firm's webinar on opt-out compliance.
Google and YouTube will pay a combined $30 million to resolve a children's privacy lawsuit that alleged the companies collected personal data and information without consent and used it to deliver targeted ads in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), California privacy laws and other similar state laws (see 2505120037)
A Massachusetts educational privacy bill advanced with revisions, the legislature’s website indicated on Monday. The Joint Education Committee cleared H-4405, which is a new draft of H-633, and sent it to the House Ways and Means Committee.