California Privacy Protection Agency allegations against Honda “are not specific to the automotive industry, and instead should be viewed as instructive for any business subject to California’s broad and prescriptive CCPA and implementing regulations,” Wiley privacy attorneys blogged Friday.
The FTC’s proposed rule under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) includes some concerning language related to “indefinite” data retention, Commissioner Melissa Holyoak said Wednesday.
Honda must pay $632,500 and change various privacy practices under an agreement with the California Privacy Protection Agency announced Wednesday. The CPPA board decided Friday to approve a settlement resolving the privacy agency's claims that the car manufacturer’s North American subsidiary violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Honda agreed to pay $632,500 and change various privacy practices as part of a settlement with the California Privacy Protection Agency announced Wednesday. The CPPA board decided Friday to approve a settlement resolving the privacy agency's claims that the car manufacturer’s North American subsidiary violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The significant order shows the agency ramping up enforcement of the CPPA, said privacy attorneys.
Texas privacy enforcement is heating up this year, said Morrison Foerster lawyers in a blog post Tuesday. AG Ken Paxton (R) “is intensifying efforts to enforce state privacy laws, indicating increased scrutiny for companies,” they said.
Privacy attorneys at Parker Poe predicted more state privacy rulemakings this year in a blog post Monday. “In 2025 we will likely see a higher volume of state regulators initiating rulemakings as a federal privacy law remains evasive and federal agency activity remains unclear.”
Legislation that would allow individuals to sue tech platforms for hosting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) increases privacy protections for victims, Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Tuesday.
Two law firms alerted clients to increased data broker oversight by California in blog posts last week.
Software company Saturn Technologies, maker of the Saturn app for high school students, will pay a penalty of $650,000 for failing to protect users' privacy, New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) said on Friday. An investigation by the AG’s office found that while Saturn claimed only high school students from the same school could interact with each other on the app, the company did not take measures to verify the emails and ages of users, allowing anyone to join and access personal information found on the app.
The General Data Protection Regulation shouldn't become a tiered, risk-based entity, though the European Commission should have more centralized power to enforce it, Charly Helleputte, Squire Patton Boggs EU data privacy attorney, emailed. His comments responded to Axel Voss' recent tiered GDPR proposal. Voss is a German Member of the European Parliament from the European People's Party Group. He discussed his proposal during a March 3-4 Centre for European Policy Studies Ideas Lab panel.