The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should reconsider withdrawing its proposed data broker rule given the privacy-related harms linked to data brokers, Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., said in a letter to acting Director Russell Vought on Friday.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation applauded Montana for being the first state to close a “data broker loophole” for law enforcement. Separately, Cooley lawyers noted Montana's leadership role among states in crafting the country's third neural privacy law.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will withdraw the Biden administration’s proposed data broker rule, the bureau announced in a notice scheduled for publication Thursday in the Federal Register. Industry groups requested the withdrawal in April comments (see 2504030059).
Massachusetts senators advanced a comprehensive privacy bill that includes a private right of action and Maryland-like data-minimization requirements. On Monday, the Senate side of the legislature’s joint Advanced Information Technology Committee advanced to the Ways and Means Committee a new draft of the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act (S-2516) that replaces bills by the committee’s Senate Chair Michael Moore (D), Senate Majority Leader Cynthia Creem (D) and Sen. William Driscoll (D). Some alternatives remain pending, including legislation by Sen. Barry Finegold (D), his spokesperson told Privacy Daily.
Days after an enforcement action against menswear retailer Todd Snyder, the California Privacy Protection Agency said its board ordered National Public Data to pay a $46,000 fine, the maximum allowed. The now-closed data broker failed to register as a data broker and pay an annual fee, as the California Delete Act requires, the CPPA said Thursday.
The global health care and life sciences sectors face major regulatory challenges in the U.S. and Europe from data transfer and cybersecurity laws, speakers said Thursday during an IAPP webinar.
While the Biden administration’s FTC focused on platform accountability for child safety, the Trump FTC appears far more concerned with strengthening parental control to protect kids' privacy and shield them from online harm, former FTC officials said Thursday at the Privacy + Security Forum Spring Academy.
A Wisconsin judge urged state legislators at a hearing Wednesday to streamline a state law that sets privacy protections for the bench. The Assembly Criminal Justice Committee heard testimony on AB-171, which would amend a state law that took effect on April 1.
There’s a checklist companies can complete to show they’re operating in “good faith” to comply with DOJ’s Data Security Program before full enforcement begins July 8 (see 2504140047), Orrick attorneys said Wednesday at the Privacy + Security Forum Spring Academy event.
Data removal service Atlas Data Privacy fired back Monday against a motion to dismiss a case about the constitutionality of a New Jersey statute aimed at protecting the personal information of certain public servants, including judges, law enforcement and their families.