A fight between Kansas’s attorney general and governor ended Monday when a state court tossed a suit that AG Kris Kobach (R) brought against Governor Laura Kelly (D), who had refused to comply with a July request from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to submit personal data of SNAP recipients. The court ruled that Kelly didn't violate the law when she failed to send personal data of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients to FNS.
Montana became the third state to regulate neural data as an amendment to the state’s genetic privacy law took effect Wednesday, adding to a trend of states overseeing the neurotechnology space (see 2508180034). On the same day, amendments to Montana’s comprehensive privacy law took effect, expanding its scope and introducing more protections for children.
A federal district court in California granted Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D) request to be included in a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the U.S. Department of Agriculture to stop it from demanding the state-held sensitive, personally identifiable information (PII) of millions of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients.
The Trump administration’s creation of large government databases consolidating the sensitive personal information of millions of Americans in an attempt to purge voter rolls is unlawful, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), League of Women Voters and others.
The California Privacy Protection Agency assessed its largest-ever penalty, ordering Tractor Supply Co. to pay a $1.35 million fine and change its business practices, the CPPA said Tuesday. The company told Privacy Daily that it’s committed to compliance and addressed the privacy issues raised.
The California Privacy Protection Agency assessed its largest-ever penalty, ordering Tractor Supply Co. to pay a $1.35 million fine and change its business practices, the CPPA said Tuesday.
The first year of Saudi Arabia's Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) showed "significant progress" in "establishing a robust data protection framework," data management consultant Abdulaziz Almanea wrote in an IAPP analysis.
When carrying out enforcement actions, regulators are looking for companies to be upfront about incidents and willing to work with them to solve issues, said state and federal regulators during a panel at a Practising Law Institute (PLI) cybersecurity conference Monday.
Uncommon and broadly applicable data minimization requirements in the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA) could pose major compliance challenges for companies when the law takes effect Wednesday, privacy attorneys representing businesses said in interviews. Some advertisers could opt out of the Maryland market rather than comply with the state's comprehensive privacy law, said David LeDuc, Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) public policy vice president.
The FTC Act and COPPA are among the statutes that will be focal points for DOJ’s new Enforcement & Affirmative Litigation Branch, the department announced Thursday.