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When immigration enforcement and patient privacy collide, health care providers must remember that HIPAA's view of personal health information (PHI) is broad, Davis Wright's Adam Greene told a Health Care Compliance Association event Wednesday.
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.”
A bill that would ban AI chatbots for minors and require age verification received a show of support from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and other senators in interviews Tuesday.
As the European Commission readies a "digital omnibus" proposal to simplify data laws and reduce business obligations, any reforms -- including to the GDPR -- must be evidence-based and continue recognizing data protection as a fundamental right, privacy lawyers said.
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.
Noting that many judges aren't technology experts, 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Patrick Higginbotham expressed concern Monday that many legal issues are decided using court documents instead of jury trials. “One of the frustrations” that stems from long-running litigation is that “a trial judge … never got to hear the full evidence,” he said during oral argument in CCIA v. Paxton.
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.