The Connecticut Attorney General recommends that lawmakers bolster the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) by scaling back exemptions, lowering thresholds of applicability, strengthening data minimization provisions, clarifying definitions and increasing protections for minors’ data, it said in a report. In addition, the report, released Thursday, recommends halting targeted advertising to children and teens and selling their personal data.
The 23andMe bankruptcy will likely lead to more privacy regulation and enforcement due to significant public awareness of the event and its possible implications for people’s sensitive genetic information, privacy experts at the Osano Privacy Pro Survival Summit said Thursday. Meanwhile, the rise of enamored but potentially dangerous AI technology could increase challenges for privacy pros, said Noelle Russell, founder of the AI Leadership Institute.
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) is participating in an EU-wide enforcement focus on people's right to the erasure of their personal data, it announced Monday.
The California Privacy Protection Agency understands that “hearing from a regulator -- and then disclosing information to a regulator -- can bring anxiety,” the CPPA said this week in a blog post about what companies should expect when the Enforcement Bureau contacts them. “The best approach is to own the facts, build credibility, and work constructively with us.”
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) on Thursday announced a $975,000 settlement with Root, an auto insurance company she accused of failing to protect the personal data of 45,000 consumers.
The California Privacy Protection Agency’s Honda enforcement order “signals an intent to hold businesses accountable for their data subject request processes,” Polsinelli attorneys blogged Monday. Honda agreed to pay $632,500 and change various privacy practices as part of a settlement with the CPPA, which was unveiled last week (see 2503120037).
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.
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Digital advertisers "are still grappling with defining the boundaries of sensitive personal information, such as health data and minors’ information,” according to an Interactive Advertising Bureau survey released Monday.
Businesses must take consent seriously in 2025, privacy experts said on an Osano webinar Monday.