Amanda Maltby will join Environics Analytics as chief privacy officer and James Smith will join as chief compliance officer, the consultant announced Tuesday. Their roles will begin on April 14. Previously, Maltby served as chief privacy officer at Canada Post, and Smith held management IT and consulting positions at various companies, including Canada Post.
More states are considering measures that protect the privacy of reproductive health data in the wake of President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, privacy experts said in recent interviews.
Correction: Exterro hosted Wednesday's webinar about the benefits of data deletion, not IAPP (see 2502190062).
Minimizing the amount of data collected and stored can diminish the risk of data breach litigation and reduce storage costs, a panel of privacy experts said during an IAPP webinar Wednesday.
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Privacy and data protection laws are mushrooming, with nearly 150 countries adopting such regulations, speakers said during a Thursday IAPP webinar. There are 144 nations with national data protection measures, covering nearly 82% of the world's population, IAPP said in an updated report.
Congressional Republicans increasingly appear interested in starting with state privacy laws as the basis for a comprehensive federal law, said Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, IAPP D.C. managing director, during an IAPP webinar Thursday. That wasn’t the approach with previous attempts at making a national law, he noted.
Crowell & Moring added Rita Heimes and Justin Weiss as senior counsel to the privacy team in its Privacy and Cybersecurity Group, the firm announced Tuesday. Formerly, Heimes served as general counsel for IAPP, and Weiss was associate general counsel for global tech investor Naspers. Weiss will also be senior director at Crowell Global Investors.
Parental consent is key to ensuring that kids are protected at school, a panel at the Student Privacy and Parental Consent event said Friday. At the same time, too much choice in consent and opt-outs can spur inequality in education, panelists warned. Public Interest Privacy Center (PIPC), Toyo University and George Washington Law hosted the event.
AI is an increasing part of privacy compliance jobs, practitioners said at Privado’s Bridge Summit web conference Thursday. Data protection officers (DPOs) are weighing ethics for AI usage across the business, while privacy engineers are mulling how they themselves might use large language models (LLMs) to automate compliance processes, they said.