As state attorneys general significantly increase technical hiring in pursuit of more sophisticated enforcement of privacy laws, companies should prepare for a similar raising of the regulatory bar in AI and other tech areas, said Brownstein Hyatt lawyers in a blog post Wednesday.
There’s an audit trail showing Palantir is following privacy laws and protocols in its work with agencies like DHS and the Internal Revenue Service, the company's global privacy director said Wednesday.
Some state lawmakers are looking to pass legislation regulating the data broker industry in the wake of the shooting deaths last month of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband and the attempted killing of John Hoffman (D), a Minnesota senator, and his wife.
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A California privacy enforcer’s first use of a purpose-limitation requirement under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) makes this week’s record $1.55 million settlement with Healthline a significant enforcement action for companies in many sectors, privacy experts told Privacy Daily this week. Also significant was the highly technical, in-depth investigation that the office of Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) conducted, they said. Signs point to increased privacy enforcement ahead.
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.
A North Carolina bill aimed at protecting children on social media cleared a House committee Tuesday. The Commerce Committee voted by voice to advance an amended HB-860 to the Appropriations Committee.
The actual cost to a company from a privacy enforcement action could be many times higher than the regulator's fine, Clarip CEO Andy Sambandam said in an interview. Privacy has become a quickly rising concern for companies amid a growing number of privacy laws and state enforcement actions, he told Privacy Daily.
An appeals court narrowed liability under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) Thursday, ruling it only applied to the disclosure of information that would allow an ordinary person to learn a specific individual's video-watching history.
Guarding the data security and privacy of consumers is just as important for small businesses as it is for large corporations with massive troves of data, said privacy experts and small business owners Monday during a panel hosted by Small Business Privacy.