Recent settlements show the vulnerability of companies that hire privacy vendors and think they're in compliance, Frankfurt Kurnit attorneys said during a webinar Thursday. In addition, they noted that states besides California are becoming more active in privacy litigation and enforcement.
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Indonesia agreed to grant the U.S. "adequacy" for personal data transfers under a trade deal the White House announced Tuesday, but it's unclear when the decision will take effect, IAPP Global Privacy Policy Manager Luis Montezuma told us Wednesday.
A case alleging discount prescription drug platform GoodRx unlawfully shared patients' protected health information with Google and Meta will continue, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
The Connecticut attorney general's office is shifting from focusing on transparency and facial requirements to more in-depth work, examining whether organizations' privacy mechanisms are working and in compliance, three assistant attorneys general said during an IAPP KnowledgeNet event Tuesday.
Healthline apparently violated “the gossip test for sensitive data” when it shared with advertisers titles of articles that individual users were reading, which effectively suggested they had certain medical diagnoses, Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, IAPP managing director for Washington, D.C., posted on the privacy association’s website Friday.
The public has until Aug. 19 to comment on a petition asking the FTC to vacate or modify an order against a “stalkerware” app, the agency said Friday.
Ireland's first mass-litigation case could have major implications for tech companies that process data under the General Data Protection Regulation, Pinsent Masons commercial litigation attorney Zara West blogged Thursday.
President Donald Trump’s firing of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter violated the FTC Act’s removal protections, a federal judge ruled Thursday, reinstating Slaughter at the agency. The White House said it will appeal.
Noting the harms social networks pose to children, several California senators supported a bill Wednesday that would add warning labels to the platforms. Though several groups and members of the public supported the legislation, several senators raised concerns that AB-56 would be challenged in court and industry attacked warning labels as an inadequate solution.
A proposed change to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) about publicly available information hit a temporary roadblock Wednesday in the Assembly Privacy Committee. Sen. Aisha Wahab (D) said she planned to work with California businesses over the summer to refine SB-435, which failed to clear the committee but is still alive. “We are deeply committed [to] working with industry.”