A Free Speech Coalition guide to state age-verification laws seeks to explain statutes around the country that “are confusing, inconsistent, and in some cases nearly impossible to follow,” FSC Executive Director Alison Boden said Monday.
Battles between states and the federal government over what is an appropriate -- and lawful -- amount of data to be shared between agencies and law enforcement is representative of a larger power struggle, said Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, IAPP managing director for Washington, D.C., in a blog post Friday.
A federal privacy statute is badly needed, and the timing is right to pass one now, said Chris Oswald, executive vice president and head of law, ethics and government relations at the Association of National Advertisers (ANA). He spoke Tuesday during a panel on data privacy at the group's Masters of Data Conference.
While there were significant implications for compliance when a federal court in June vacated most of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (see 2506200057), HIPAA-regulated entities shouldn't rush to remove all reproductive health-related policies, said Robinson + Cole lawyers in a Monday blog post.
Meta is expanding its internal privacy compliance programs to cover security and accessibility issues, the company announced Monday.
Companies can learn practical lessons from common themes in recent enforcement actions and implementing those takeaways can help them stay ahead of evolving privacy requirements, said Quarles lawyers in a blog post Monday.
Understanding the privacy and security flow of mobile operating systems should reach beyond an organization's developers as a way of enhancing transparency, Future of Privacy Forum CEO Jules Polonetsky said during a LinkedIn Live on Friday.
A common misconception is that all health and medical data is subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), though the consequences for mistakes could be severe.
The privacy profession "is undergoing significant transformation" driven by the development of AI, IAPP reported Tuesday in a study on salaries.
YouTube will use AI to estimate U.S. users’ ages starting Aug. 13, the Google company said Tuesday.