23andMe defended its planned sale in a statement to us Tuesday, decrying a lawsuit and separate objection filed Monday by a bipartisan group of nearly 30 state attorneys general. The AGs opposed the proposed sale of collected genetic information without each customer's consent. Founder Anne Wojcicki and interim CEO Joe Selsavage defended the company's privacy practices during a House Oversight Committee hearing Tuesday.
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.
State privacy investigators are in constant contact about potential enforcement action that goes beyond the recently launched bipartisan consortium (see 2504160037), privacy officials from California, Colorado and Texas said.
While children and teens' safety online has been a focus of regulators and lawmakers globally, privacy experts believe this trend will continue growing, according to their recent posts.
As the California Privacy Protection Agency ramps up enforcement, it will “telegraph” how it plans to enforce the state’s privacy law and will act in ways that aren’t far from what other states would do, CPPA Executive Director Tom Kemp said in a wide-ranging interview Wednesday with Privacy Daily. In addition, Kemp panned Congress’ proposed 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation while saying the agency is being careful about what aspects of AI may come under its jurisdiction.
A coalition of tech watchdogs Wednesday blasted the California Senate's passage of SB-690 (see 2506030058), a bill aimed at amending the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA).
A recent district court decision blocking enforcement of a Florida social media law requiring age verification (see 2506030057) should serve as a reason to grant a preliminary injunction against similar measures in Tennessee and Mississippi, NetChoice said in court documents Wednesday.
Instructure, an educational technology firm, asked a federal court to dismiss a privacy suit against it, alleging it has federal and state authorization for its actions. The suit comes from a group of parents who claim their school-aged children’s data was collected and sold without their knowledge or consent.
The Trump administration will back off its demand for states to send it the personal data of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) announced Tuesday.
A federal court halted enforcement of a Florida social media law that would prohibit kids 13 and younger from creating social media accounts, requires parental consent for 14- and 15-year-olds to create them and uses age-verification to implement these restrictions. The ruling by the U.S. District Court for Northern Florida on Tuesday granted a request for a preliminary injunction brought by NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), who say HB-3 violates the First Amendment and poses privacy risks.