Companies should consider taking concrete action to comply with forthcoming changes to the FTC’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) rule, compliance attorneys at Paul Hastings said Thursday.
The president has “absolute authority” to remove FTC commissioners, Republican attorneys general from 21 states said in an amicus brief filed Monday with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (see 2504240027).
DOJ’s Office of the U.S. Trustee will appoint a consumer privacy ombudsman in 23andMe’s bankruptcy sale, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Eastern Missouri said in a filing Monday (see 2504160031).
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The House voted 409-2 Monday to pass the Take It Down Act (S-146), despite privacy-related objections from encryption advocates.
The FTC should investigate how neurotechnology companies are handling and sharing consumer data using brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, Senate Democrats said in a letter to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson on Monday.
Lawyers for President Donald Trump doubled down on what they argued is his constitutional right to fire FTC commissioners. In a court document Wednesday, the president's lawyers presented reasons why the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia should summarily dismiss the case that fired FTC Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya brought, challenging their March removal and seeking reinstatement.
Amid European uncertainty about the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (see 2504230002), Microsoft Chief Privacy Officer Julie Brill advised IAPP Global Policy Summit attendees to talk calmly with other countries about the state of U.S. privacy. On the same panel Thursday, Cisco CPO Harvey Jang said engagement with regulators and legislators is a must at the moment.
European Data Protection Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiorowski is worried about what's going on in the U.S. and its potential effect on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), he said Wednesday at a streamed Brussels briefing on the EDPS' 2024 annual report.
The U.S. should continue exploring app store age-verification laws like the measure passed in Utah, FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak said at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit on Tuesday evening.