Companies that help consumers exercise privacy rights like opt-out and data deletion are not selling snake oil, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said.
With emerging technologies and issues in the health care space, the role of privacy officers must also evolve and adapt to stay relevant in a changing landscape, said a panel of privacy leaders during the National HIPAA Summit Thursday.
Multiple state attorneys general signaled that they will flex their privacy enforcement muscles in the wake of President Donald Trump's Tuesday firing of Democratic FTC Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter. Privacy experts said the development raises new concerns about the fate of trans-Atlantic personal data transfers and the legitimacy of potential FTC rulemaking decisions.
Privacy attorney David Patariu of The CISO Law Firm spoke March 13 at the IAPP Data Protection Intensive conference (see 2503130016).
LONDON -- The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office is intensively engaged in the hot privacy issues of biometrics and web scraping, Regulatory Risk Executive Director Stephen Almond said at Thursday's IAPP Data Protection Intensive conference.
LONDON -- With the rule of law and protection of individuals trending as issues in Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere, it's important to have data protection authorities ensuring that fundamental rights are respected, Hielke Hijmans, litigation chamber president of the Belgian Data Protection Authority, said 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.
Amanda Maltby will join Environics Analytics as chief privacy officer and James Smith will join as chief compliance officer, the consultant announced Tuesday. Their roles will begin on April 14. Previously, Maltby served as chief privacy officer at Canada Post, and Smith held management IT and consulting positions at various companies, including Canada Post.
More states are considering measures that protect the privacy of reproductive health data in the wake of President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, privacy experts said in recent interviews.
Correction: Exterro hosted Wednesday's webinar about the benefits of data deletion, not IAPP (see 2502190062).