Opponents of social media age-verification requirements Thursday cast a Michigan bill as outdated, bad for consumer privacy and likely to draw a lawsuit. However, at the Michigan House Regulatory Reform Committee hearing, sponsor Rep. Mark Tisdel (R) repeatedly said his legislation is meant to hammer home a critical concept: “Minors can’t consent.”
Privacy regulators in the U.S. and abroad are scrutinizing how connected vehicles collect and share data about their drivers, said Morrison Foerster attorneys on a webinar Wednesday.
OpenAI said the New York Times “disregards long-standing privacy protections” when it demands that the company turn over 20 million private ChatGPT conversations in a legal suit. But a spokesperson for the newspaper said the AI company is being misleading and there's no threat to users' privacy.
Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform (DROP) rules will take effect Jan. 1, the same day that the accessible deletion platform goes live, the California Privacy Protection Agency announced at the CalPrivacy Board’s meeting Friday. Also at the meeting, CalPrivacy General Counsel Philip Laird walked the board through a presentation on how consumers and data brokers will interact with DROP.
California Privacy Protection Agency legislative staff is closely watching potential preemption efforts on Capitol Hill while developing possible bills to tighten the California Consumer Privacy Act in its home state’s legislature, said an agency official during the CalPrivacy Board’s meeting Friday. The proposed bills would add whistleblower protections, require alternative methods for submitting consumer privacy requests and expand California’s deletion right to cover all personal information collected about a consumer.
The California Privacy Protection Agency is exploring possible rulemakings in the categories of employee data, opt-out preference signals (OOPS), disclosures and notices and reducing friction exercising consumer privacy rights, CalPrivacy staff told the board at its Friday meeting. Unlike with the previous rulemaking package on automated decision-making technology and other subjects, the agency plans to “present more targeted recommendations addressing only one or two policy issues at a time,” said General Counsel Philip Laird.
The number of enforcement actions under state consumer privacy laws is “building” and could soon explode, said Troutman privacy attorney David Stauss on his firm’s webinar Thursday. For companies, injunctive relief could be just as costly as the monetary penalty, he cautioned.
CHICAGO -- Keeping up with compliance is critical as the field of privacy evolves, in-house lawyers at two companies told the Association of National Advertisers ad law conference this week.
CHICAGO -- Privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) are "becoming a crucial part of the advertising ecosystem,” Google Government Affairs Manager Alex Propes said on a Wednesday keynote panel at the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) ad law conference. PETs can be helpful inside a business and during tough conversations with privacy regulators, other panelists said.
CHICAGO -- Work in the House on a national privacy bill has continued even during the government shutdown, Venable’s Michael Signorelli said during a panel Tuesday at the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) ad law conference. But with a year to go until the 2026 midterm elections, timing could be a problem, the privacy and advertising attorney said. “The calendar is no one’s friend right now.”