The environment around data privacy is changing constantly as state regulators emphasize different issues, collaborate outside their offices and sometimes investigate activities that started years ago, Ballard Spahr lawyers said during a webinar Wednesday. Accordingly, these trends mean companies must be constantly vigilant throughout their operations.
Utah should consider amending its comprehensive privacy law, given the underwhelming number of consumer privacy complaints filed in the statute’s first 18 months, said Attorney General Derek Brown (R) and the Utah Division of Consumer Protection in a report obtained Wednesday by Privacy Daily. “Complaints have not been as forthcoming as anticipated,” it said, but “violations are likely occurring.”
Managing AI privacy concerns in an organization requires expanding existing frameworks but also increasing collaboration across the business in acknowledgment of AI's wide potential to touch many areas, panelists said during an IAPP webinar on Tuesday.
The FTC’s 2024 settlement with NGL Labs and 2023 agreement with Epic Games could serve as a blueprint for federal and state enforcers protecting teens from privacy and design-related harms, former Consumer Protection Bureau Director Samuel Levine told Privacy Daily in an interview Monday.
The New York Child Data Protection Act (NYCDPA), which took effect Friday, is unique for many reasons, including its age-flag requirement and because New York lacks a comprehensive law covering users of all ages, experts said in interviews. However, like a good deal of privacy and online safety regulations, it may face legal challenges, said Jason Oliveri, data privacy partner at Hinshaw & Culbertson.
Businesses should be aware of unusual requirements in New Jersey draft rules for implementing the state’s comprehensive privacy law, several law firms warned in blog posts this month.
Representatives from Apple and Google highlighted some company differences in philosophy regarding data retention practices during separate panels at the Future of Privacy Forum’s DC Privacy Forum on Wednesday.
While a change in opinion from notice-and-choice data minimization requirements is highlighted by several recent laws, whether there is a true paradigm shift cannot be understood until they go into effect and become enforceable, said the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) in a report Thursday.
Amendments to Connecticut’s privacy law passed the legislature on Tuesday as part of a different bill that included other subjects. Changes to the Connecticut Data Privacy Act would take effect July 1, 2026, if the bill is signed by Gov. Ned Lamont (D).
One of Maine’s two competing comprehensive privacy bills failed to clear the Joint Judiciary Committee during a work session Friday while the other bill was passed as amended.