Making it easier to exercise privacy rights is a key priority for California Privacy Protection Agency Executive Director Tom Kemp, he blogged Thursday.
The GDPR’s Article 5 data-processing principles will likely remain intact, but there’s potential for compromise on revisions to other data-processing requirements in forthcoming negotiations, a center-right digital policy advisor for the European Parliament said Friday at the Privacy + Security Forum spring academy.
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.
AI’s high-speed evolution makes it a tough technology to regulate, said panelists at a partly virtual University of Illinois privacy conference Thursday.
Checks on 60 local organizations by the Hong Kong Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data found that all were in compliance with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO), the PCPD announced Thursday.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) renewed its call for a court to require that the Social Security Administration (SSA) promptly process its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents related to possible privacy violations.
Maine lawmakers are mulling limits on using AI to make healthcare decisions without human involvement. The legislature’s joint Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services Committee received testimony Thursday on two such AI bills (LD-1301 and LD-955), plus a third requiring chatbot disclosures (LD-1727).
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.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Microsoft President Brad Smith will testify before the Senate Commerce Committee at Thursday’s hearing on AI competition.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) notified several Chinese-aligned companies that they are violating Texans’ privacy rights and gave them 30 days to comply with Texas law, the AG office said Tuesday.