SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Advertisers and regulators are considering the potential of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) to balance business interests with protecting consumers’ privacy, panel members said Monday during the USENIX Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR) conference. But whether PETs, which include differential privacy and homomorphic encryption, are up to the task is unclear, panelists said.
23andMe defended its planned sale in a statement to us Tuesday, decrying a lawsuit and separate objection filed Monday by a bipartisan group of nearly 30 state attorneys general. The AGs opposed the proposed sale of collected genetic information without each customer's consent. Founder Anne Wojcicki and interim CEO Joe Selsavage defended the company's privacy practices during a House Oversight Committee hearing Tuesday.
Studying the fundamentals surrounding AI and privacy before imposing regulation will help create a future where generative AI's benefits can coexist with privacy rights, panelists said Monday during a webinar of the Federalist Society Regulatory Transparency Project.
The actual cost to a company from a privacy enforcement action could be many times higher than the regulator's fine, Clarip CEO Andy Sambandam said in an interview. Privacy has become a quickly rising concern for companies amid a growing number of privacy laws and state enforcement actions, he told Privacy Daily.
Worldwide interest is growing in adopting the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules (GCBPR) system for international data transfers, the Hogan Lovells law firm reported.
The European Commission on Friday called for input into implementing the EU AI Act's rules on high-risk AI systems.
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) Thursday clarified how organizations can best respond to requests for personal data transfers from non-European countries.
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Thursday released the panel’s budget text with a revised version of the House-passed moratorium on state AI regulation (see 2506030068).
As the California Privacy Protection Agency ramps up enforcement, it will “telegraph” how it plans to enforce the state’s privacy law and will act in ways that aren’t far from what other states would do, CPPA Executive Director Tom Kemp said in a wide-ranging interview Wednesday with Privacy Daily. In addition, Kemp panned Congress’ proposed 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation while saying the agency is being careful about what aspects of AI may come under its jurisdiction.
Congress should reject the proposed 10-year moratorium on enforcement of state AI laws, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday in a New York Times editorial (see 2506030068).