Cookies and other tracking technologies were considered simple tools to enhance website users' experience but have become "ground zero" in the data-protection consent space, privacy and cybersecurity attorney Scott Loughlin said at a June 12 Hogan Lovells webinar.
The FTC’s unfairness authority can continue to be a useful enforcement tool in holding social media companies liable for harming teens, former FTC Chair Lina Khan wrote in a Stanford Law Review article with former Consumer Protection Bureau Director Samuel Levine and former Chief Technologist Stephanie Nguyen.
Last month’s Privacy Law Scholars Conference showed exploding interest in privacy, as well as growing concern about how the government may be weaponizing personal information, said PLSC Chair Ari Waldman in an interview with Privacy Daily earlier this month. The May 28-29 meeting was the privacy scholars’ first conference since penning a letter that raised concerns about the Trump administration.
Democrats on Wednesday reintroduced bicameral legislation that would set data-minimization standards for the collection and sharing of personal reproductive and sexual health data.
Meta AI users posting what's typically private information for everyone to see on the app is raising questions about whether all users understand they’re sharing their AI queries with the world. Users on X posted about the trend this week with many examples.
Courts should be careful about using privacy-related remedies in antitrust cases because enforcement goals differ in the two policy areas, former FTC Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen said Wednesday during the Future of Privacy Forum’s DC Privacy Forum 2025.
FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya on Monday announced his resignation but said he will remain a plaintiff in a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s recent firings of himself and Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter (see 2505230044).
Former FTC Chair Lina Khan met with members on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
23andMe defended its planned sale in a statement to us Tuesday, decrying a lawsuit and separate objection filed Monday by a bipartisan group of nearly 30 state attorneys general. The AGs opposed the proposed sale of collected genetic information without each customer's consent. Founder Anne Wojcicki and interim CEO Joe Selsavage defended the company's privacy practices during a House Oversight Committee hearing Tuesday.
State privacy investigators are in constant contact about potential enforcement action that goes beyond the recently launched bipartisan consortium (see 2504160037), privacy officials from California, Colorado and Texas said.