CHICAGO -- States’ comprehensive privacy laws are not “dead letters” or “paper tigers,” Perkins Coie privacy attorney Meredith Halama said during a panel at the Association of National Advertisers ad law conference. “We see real, active enforcement, particularly in California.”
CHICAGO -- It’s unusual for DOJ to be weighing state preemption in a public inquiry, said a former DOJ official on a panel about the second Trump administration during the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) ad law conference Monday. A former lead counsel in North Carolina’s attorney general's office suggested such an effort is unlikely to succeed, even as Democratic states seek to fill a regulatory void opened by the current federal government.
CHICAGO -- AI won't get immunity from FTC enforcement, Commissioner Melissa Holyoak said Tuesday in a keynote at the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) ad law conference. Also, the Republican said the commission shouldn’t prejudge advertising practices that might benefit consumers or competition.
CHICAGO – With regulators increasingly focused on child privacy, compliance is critical, said privacy experts at the Association of National Advertisers conference on Monday.
CHICAGO -- Privacy regulators are looking beyond a company’s privacy policy when they review its advertising practices, said panelists at an Association of National Advertisers (ANA) ad law conference Monday. That can help or hurt an entity under investigation, they said. Also, panelists said it’s important to convey the value of privacy, not just its costs, in business conversations.
Privacy regulation might have short-term costs, but there’s a dearth of evidence about its long-term economic harms, Carnegie Mellon University professor Alessandro Acquisti said. Speaking on a Thursday webinar hosted by George Washington University privacy professor Daniel Solove, Acquisti also addressed the so-called “privacy paradox” and the challenges of assigning a price to someone’s personal data.
Amid intensifying regulatory pressure about kids' online safety, Character.AI said Wednesday that it will roll out age assurance and remove “the ability for users under 18 to engage in open-ended chat with AI" on its platform by Nov. 25. The changes respond to questions raised by regulators and in recent news reports “about the content teens may encounter when chatting with AI and about how open-ended AI chat in general might affect teens,” the chatbot platform said.
Much state enforcement is not publicly announced, said privacy lawyer Elliot Golding during a McDermott Will webinar Wednesday. “For every public enforcement we see, there's … dozens and dozens of ones that are not yet public.”
A Pennsylvania genetic data privacy bill could soon get a House floor vote, amid increased interest in the topic this year following the 23andMe bankruptcy. The House Consumer Protection Committee voted 26-0 on Wednesday to clear HB-1530 by Chair Danilo Burgos (D), with members from both political parties joining hands to vote yes.
Some privacy lawyers for businesses are taking a judge’s condemnation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act as a potential rallying cry for passing a bill to overhaul CIPA. The California legislature this year decided to postpone consideration on such a bill (SB-690) until 2026 due to consumer privacy concerns. But in an Oct. 17 decision, U.S. District Court of Northern California Judge Vince Chhabria recommended legislative action, writing that the “state of affairs with CIPA is untenable.”