The California Privacy Protection Agency will seek to illuminate how California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) rights work in the employment context through an upcoming rulemaking, CalPrivacy Executive Director Tom Kemp said in a keynote at compliance vendor Privado’s Bridge Summit event Wednesday. The agency plans to discuss a timeline for comments on that and other potential rulemakings at the CalPrivacy Board’s Feb. 27 meeting, he said.
French watchdog CNIL advised the public Tuesday about deepfakes and how to protect against them.
A Hawaii bill that would ban selling geolocation and internet browser information without consent advanced in the state Senate on Friday. The legislative chamber’s Technology Committee voted 4-0 on Friday to clear SB-1163 with amendments. However, Hawaii's Commerce Department urged legislators to address geolocation and other sensitive data protections in a comprehensive privacy bill instead.
Cybersecurity is about more than just prevention and data protection, with infrastructure playing an important role too, said Leonard Nuara, founding partner at Flatiron Law Group, during an event hosted by the Practising Law Institute Thursday.
French telco Free will appeal the "unprecedented" decision of privacy regulator CNIL to fine it and Free Mobile 15 million euros ($17.5 million) and 27 million euros ($31.5 million), respectively, for failing to keep 24 million subscribers' data secure, a spokesperson for Iliad Group, which owns the providers, said in an emailed statement Wednesday. It intends to appeal the decision to France's Supreme Administrative Court, the spokesperson added.
Data protection should be a core management responsibility in an effort to stop burgeoning data breaches, Kyunghee Song, South Korea Personal Information Protection Commission chairperson, said in an op-ed posted Friday by the PIPC on LinkedIn.
Tennessee joined five other states in suing gaming platform Roblox over concerns for children’s safety. Filed in state court Thursday, the suit accuses Roblox of engaging in unfair and deceptive business practices that harm kids, in violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act.
Possible New York regulations aimed at protecting kids against addictive feeds raise significant privacy concerns, tech industry and consumer privacy groups agreed in comments reviewed Tuesday by Privacy Daily. The groups weighed in Monday on a Sept. 15 NPRM from the state attorney general's office to implement the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act.
A recent court decision demonstrates that “retail sites aren’t getting a free pass” when it comes to California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) claims, especially when pixel trackers are collecting much more than what's needed for ads, said Troutman Amin lawyer Keerti Jaya in a blog post Friday.
Fresh New York state laws on algorithmic pricing and AI chatbots that are now in effect prompted comments from elected officials about the statutes' importance.