The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to forego reviewing a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) case means questions and conflicting rulings on the statute will remain unsettled, leaving businesses in a lurch, David Krueger, privacy litigator at Benesch, told Privacy Daily Monday.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday signaled a willingness to uphold President Donald Trump’s firing of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, a decision that liberal justices said could totally upend existing structures at independent agencies like the FTC and the FCC (see 2511280002).
The modest fine of $56,000 that California Privacy Protection Agency’s (CalPrivacy) assessed against a company recently for failing to register as a data broker (see 2512030029) “may be the last penalty we see of this size,” said Dentons privacy attorney Dalton Cline, who sees several factors increasing monetary burdens on violators in the future.
X breached its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA) and should pay a 120 million euros ($140 million) fine, the European Commission said Friday in its first non-compliance decision under the law. X didn't immediately comment.
The Department of Homeland Security has unlawfully made changes to a system containing the personal information of citizens and non-citizens that allows government agencies to check immigration status and enable voter roll purges, a coalition of advocacy groups said this week.
Vermont Rep. Monique Priestley (D) will push again for comprehensive privacy legislation -- and probably one of two data broker bills -- when the legislature returns Jan. 8, she said in an interview last week with Privacy Daily. A series of town halls yielded much public excitement for privacy protections and potential new support from small businesses next year, said Priestley, who also will be running for state senator in 2026 (see 2510290024).
States have a role in regulating AI, several Senate Republicans told us Thursday after House Republicans dropped plans to include an AI moratorium in Congress’ defense spending package (see 2512030038).
DOJ's filing of six lawsuits against states on Tuesday “escalate an unprecedented effort to collect sensitive voter information" from them in what is potentially a violation of the Privacy Act of 1974, Tim Harper, senior policy analyst of elections and democracy at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) told us. In a statement to Privacy Daily, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha (D) condemned the suits as the "weaponization" of the DOJ, which also sued California in September for refusing to give up its voter rolls (see 2512020022).
Lawyers and privacy advocates are raising questions about a key proposal in the European Commission's digital omnibus package that aims to reform the GDPR by allowing legitimate interests as a legal basis for processing personal data for AI models.
New York must not give in to staunch industry efforts to stop a health data privacy bill, said state Sen. Liz Krueger and Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal in an emailed statement Wednesday. The Democratic sponsors of the bill (S-929/A-2141) responded to a Monday letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) from many tech industry, advertising and other business groups calling for a veto.