California should lead the way in banning data-driven pricing, Assemblymember Chris Ward (D) told Privacy Daily on Thursday.
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It’s crunch time for the California legislature, with many privacy and AI bills nearing the finish line as lawmakers return from summer recess Monday. A few of the most potentially impactful measures for businesses cover universal opt-out preference signals, location privacy, automated decisions and so-called surveillance pricing, said privacy lawyers and consumer advocates in interviews with Privacy Daily this week.
As AI and other data-rich emerging technologies become more prevalent and amp up the need for information, organizations must ensure their privacy policies and practices help engender customer trust, said JoAnn Stonier, Mastercard fellow of data and AI, said Wednesday.
Legislation significantly revamping Israel's data protection law took effect Thursday, but the country's privacy watchdog said it will delay enforcement of one of its provisions until October.
A federal privacy statute is badly needed, and the timing is right to pass one now, said Chris Oswald, executive vice president and head of law, ethics and government relations at the Association of National Advertisers (ANA). He spoke Tuesday during a panel on data privacy at the group's Masters of Data Conference.
A German regional court on Tuesday dismissed a request for a preliminary injunction in a General Data Protection Regulation-related lawsuit against Meta over its AI-related data processing.
Companies should master the fundamentals of privacy, which will form a solid foundation when handling new privacy regulations, enforcement actions and emerging technologies like AI, said Sourcepoint’s Chief Privacy Officer Julie Rubash and Brian Kane, the chief operating officer of the privacy software company that was recently acquired by Didomi (see 2507080040).
While using data can help build meaningful connections with customers, businesses need to do so effectively and transparently, executives said Tuesday at the Association of National Advertisers' Masters of Data Conference.
French data protection authority CNIL and the German Federal Office for Information Security jointly published a paper Tuesday covering design principles for Large Language Model-based systems using zero-trust architecture principles.
SB-318 is a legislative proposal to update SB-205, Colorado’s AI Act (see 2508070039).