Julie Brill, chief privacy officer and corporate vice president for Global Privacy, Safety, and Regulatory Affairs at Microsoft, will step down from her full-time role in July, she said in a LinkedIn post Friday. Brill said she will launch a consultancy in September with Microsoft as her first client. Before her time at Microsoft, Brill was a commissioner at the FTC, and later was part of the privacy and cybersecurity practice at Hogan Lovells.
A federal court shouldn’t force Google to share users’ personal data in DOJ’s monopoly lawsuit against the company, the Competitive Enterprise Institute said Thursday.
Louisiana’s Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday passed HB-570, an app store age-verification bill that has pitted Apple and Google against Meta and X (see 2505280065).
President Donald Trump on Tuesday filed an appeal seeking a stay against a federal court’s ruling reinstating fired members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (see 2505210073).
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding President Donald Trump’s recent board firings suggests FTC Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya shouldn’t be reinstated, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson and the Trump administration said in a filing Friday (see 2505060040).
It’s unclear if enforcers like the FTC can require the buyer of 23andMe to honor the company’s privacy policies if the buyer doesn’t publicly state its intention to do so, according to Reed Freeman, co-chair of the ArentFox privacy and data security group.
A Nevada genetic privacy bill responds to the 23andMe bankruptcy and Trump administration misinformation about people with autism, Nevada Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager (D) said Thursday. Yeager urged passage of his AB-589 at a livestreamed Assembly Government Affairs Committee hearing.
The FTC finalized a settlement with GoDaddy over allegations that the domain registry failed to implement proper security measures, which prompted data breaches, the commission said Wednesday. Under the order, GoDaddy cannot make misrepresentations about its security or compliance with privacy or security programs. In addition, it must establish an information-security program and hire a third-party assessor to review it.
State attorneys general last week made unfounded claims against House Republicans’ proposed AI moratorium, Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., told us Tuesday. The moratorium doesn’t block states from enforcing traditional consumer protection laws, he added.