CHICAGO – With regulators increasingly focused on child privacy, compliance is critical, said privacy experts at the Association of National Advertisers conference on Monday.
FTC Privacy Enforcement
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CHICAGO -- Privacy regulators are looking beyond a company’s privacy policy when they review its advertising practices, said panelists at an Association of National Advertisers (ANA) ad law conference Monday. That can help or hurt an entity under investigation, they said. Also, panelists said it’s important to convey the value of privacy, not just its costs, in business conversations.
A former FTC privacy attorney questioned Roblox’s motivations for partnering with a state attorney general association on a youth online safety initiative. The AG group disagreed with the concerns.
The FTC should block Meta’s plans to use AI chatbot conversations for targeted advertising purposes, more than 30 civil society groups wrote Chairman Andrew Ferguson on Thursday.
President Donald Trump will name Ryan Baasch to replace outgoing FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak, the White House confirmed Thursday.
An appeal this week of an EU General Court ruling in a case that questioned the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) will bring the issue to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) again, IAPP officials and privacy lawyers said Thursday. Euractiv reported French Parliament Member Philippe Latombe's appeal Wednesday. Latombe didn't immediately comment.
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Florida and Michigan focused recent privacy complaints against Roku on the streaming box maker's partnerships with data brokers, Holland & Knight lawyers noted in a blog post Friday.
Meta is restructuring its compliance team and will maintain “high standards,” the company said Friday in response to reports that it’s laying off hundreds of employees and automating certain compliance tasks.
Google violated the federal children’s privacy law and engaged in unfair and deceptive practices by harming children in various ways related to its Play Store, the Digital Childhood Institute said Friday in a complaint filed with the FTC.