TechNet named Robert Boykin executive director for California and the Southwest region, the association announced Wednesday. He previously worked as a legislative advocate at the California Association of Health Plans, government relations manager for Argo AI and chief of staff to California Assemblymember Jose Medina (D).
The Department of Homeland Security is terminating its data privacy, AI and cyber advisory boards in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump, DHS announced Wednesday.
LONDON -- How companies handle people's "digital remains" is one of the most pressing privacy issues of this century, Carl Ohman, Uppsala University (Sweden) political science professor, said Wednesday at the IAPP Data Protection Intensive UK conference.
Texas privacy enforcement is heating up this year, said Morrison Foerster lawyers in a blog post Tuesday. AG Ken Paxton (R) “is intensifying efforts to enforce state privacy laws, indicating increased scrutiny for companies,” they said.
Privacy attorneys at Parker Poe predicted more state privacy rulemakings this year in a blog post Monday. “In 2025 we will likely see a higher volume of state regulators initiating rulemakings as a federal privacy law remains evasive and federal agency activity remains unclear.”
Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark (D) pressed her case for including a private right of action (PRA) in a proposed comprehensive state privacy law (S-71) at a Senate Institutions Committee hearing livestreamed Tuesday. However, a Republican committee member and the Vermont Chamber of Commerce pushed back against allowing individuals to sue. The Chamber witnesses urged lawmakers to instead pass a rival bill (S-93) to more closely align Vermont with privacy laws in other New England states.
The European Commission's adequacy decision permitting data flows from Europe to the U.K. expires June 27 and there are concerns about U.K. legislative reforms to data protection rules, a March Parliamentary Research Services memo said.
DOJ and a bipartisan group of 38 states submitted a final proposal Friday about ending Google’s search engine monopoly, including data rights and privacy safeguards.
California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) board members voted 5-0 at their Friday meeting to advance draft rules about data deletion to a formal rulemaking.
Businesses trying to limit information they would otherwise have to disclose under data protection laws but consider trade secrets could be forced to disclose those secrets to a court or arbitrator under a recent decision by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), Pinsent Masons attorneys noted Friday. The decision involves the interplay between General Data Protection Act provisions on automated decision-making and EU trade secrets law, they wrote.