Understanding “data flows” and “who has access" are the most important steps in making a good-faith effort to comply with the DOJ’s bulk data transfer rule before a three-month grace period ends, said privacy attorney Nancy Libin during a Davis Wright webinar Tuesday. DOJ will begin full enforcement July 8 (see 2504140047).
A court dismissed a class action lawsuit against the NFL that alleged the league violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by employing the Meta-tracking pixel without user notice and consent. Issued Friday, the summary order ruled that an "ordinary person" could not determine a user's Facebook ID through the pixel's transmission.
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.
U.S. companies can use state privacy laws to better gauge when they’re considered data brokers under DOJ’s data transfer rule, Hunton privacy attorney Michael La Marca said during a Tuesday webinar.
The use of tracking pixels is growing, raising issues about email, French privacy watchdog CNIL said Thursday as it unveiled a consultation on draft recommendations for using pixels. CNIL said it's receiving increasing complaints about pixels and wants to help stakeholders who use such trackers understand their obligations around user-consent collection.
Inspections of six websites' use of tracking pixels found that the sites illegally shared visitors' personal information with third parties, including, in some cases, sensitive information, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) said Thursday. It fined one website more than $25,000 (250,000 kroner).
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Privacy engineers should put their heads down and forge ahead with AI governance initiatives regardless of what’s happening in Congress, at the state level or elsewhere, said panelists Tuesday at the USENIX Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR) conference. Legal uncertainty may just be a fact of life for the privacy practitioner, they said.
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NBCUniversal Media (NBCU) cited a May 1 appeals court ruling that the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) applied only to the disclosure of information that would allow an ordinary person to learn a specific individual's video-watching history as reasoning for a district court to dismiss a VPPA case against it (see 2505010046).
A court dismissed claims of privacy violations against Google Thursday that have dogged the company since 2023, ruling that an update on its help pages with instructions about preventing Google from receiving private health information (PHI) proved the tech giant wasn't intentionally obtaining the data.