A bipartisan coalition of 37 state attorneys general urged Instagram to make changes to its new location-sharing feature, citing privacy concerns, in a letter Wednesday.
Companies should master the fundamentals of privacy, which will form a solid foundation when handling new privacy regulations, enforcement actions and emerging technologies like AI, said Sourcepoint’s Chief Privacy Officer Julie Rubash and Brian Kane, the chief operating officer of the privacy software company that was recently acquired by Didomi (see 2507080040).
While using data can help build meaningful connections with customers, businesses need to do so effectively and transparently, executives said Tuesday at the Association of National Advertisers' Masters of Data Conference.
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People are increasingly using general-purpose AI chatbots like ChatGPT for emotional and mental health support, but many don’t realize that regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) fail to cover these sensitive conversations, a Duke University paper published last month found. Industry self-regulation seems unlikely to solve the issue, which may disproportionately affect vulnerable populations, said Pardis Emami-Naeini, a computer science professor at Duke and one of the report’s authors.
The definition of consumer under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) is narrow, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said Tuesday. The appeals court affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a case against the Washington Examiner that alleged it violated the federal statute. A concurring opinion from one of the judges said the VPPA seems outdated and suggested that consumer was not the only term in the VPPA that should be narrowly defined.
London's High Court of Justice Monday tossed a challenge by nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation to provisions of the U.K. Online Safety Act (OSA) it claimed could jeopardize the privacy and safety of Wikipedia contributors, but stressed that contributors must be protected.
New Jersey’s proposed privacy rules might be the most “aggressive” in the country, particularly the potential limitations on AI-related data scraping, attorneys and a tech industry official said in interviews.
CAMDEN, N.J. -- A federal judge raised doubts Monday that the Communications Decency Act gives data brokers immunity from New Jersey’s Daniel’s Law. In an oral argument at the U.S. District Court for New Jersey, Judge Harvey Bartle heard preemption arguments from various data brokers sued by Atlas Data Privacy under the 2020 state law, which is aimed at protecting the personal information of judicial and law enforcement officers, child protective investigators and certain family members.
Meta could be more transparent about a new Instagram feature that lets users share their location with friends, a consumer privacy advocate said Friday. While another advocate also raised safety concerns, the company listed ways that the mapping feature protects privacy.