As the presence of regulators and regulations grows in the privacy landscape, states are increasing their proactive enforcement and employing technology to do so, privacy experts said during a Privado webinar Thursday.
Recent rulings in litigation over the constitutionality of laws aiming to protect children online will serve as examples for other states' future attempts to regulate the area of what works and what doesn't, said Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, IAPP managing director for Washington, D.C., in a blog post Friday.
Privacy is often only part of the job for most privacy professionals, which makes protecting data more challenging, compliance vendor Osano blogged Friday.
Companies that help consumers exercise privacy rights like opt-out and data deletion are not selling snake oil, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said.
With emerging technologies and issues in the health care space, the role of privacy officers must also evolve and adapt to stay relevant in a changing landscape, said a panel of privacy leaders during the National HIPAA Summit Thursday.
Multiple state attorneys general signaled that they will flex their privacy enforcement muscles in the wake of President Donald Trump's Tuesday firing of Democratic FTC Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter. Privacy experts said the development raises new concerns about the fate of trans-Atlantic personal data transfers and the legitimacy of potential FTC rulemaking decisions.
Privacy attorney David Patariu of The CISO Law Firm spoke March 13 at the IAPP Data Protection Intensive conference (see 2503130016).
LONDON -- The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office is intensively engaged in the hot privacy issues of biometrics and web scraping, Regulatory Risk Executive Director Stephen Almond said at Thursday's IAPP Data Protection Intensive conference.
LONDON -- With the rule of law and protection of individuals trending as issues in Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere, it's important to have data protection authorities ensuring that fundamental rights are respected, Hielke Hijmans, litigation chamber president of the Belgian Data Protection Authority, said Wednesday.
LONDON -- How companies handle people's "digital remains" is one of the most pressing privacy issues of this century, Carl Ohman, Uppsala University (Sweden) political science professor, said Wednesday at the IAPP Data Protection Intensive UK conference.