It’s best to avoid building privacy compliance programs around specific regulations or treating customers differently by region, Iman Saleh, Airbnb senior manager of AI privacy architecture said during a panel at the Risk Digital Global virtual conference Thursday. “Generalize when possible" and "work within the spirit of the law, not the letter of the law,” she said.
Though age gating is increasingly prevalent, laws regulating it vary widely from state to state, and courts haven't fully addressed their legality, said Corynne McSherry, legal director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
Real estate firm Zillow's online and mobile products are in compliance with a series of self-regulatory digital advertising principles for online interest-based advertising (IBA), BBB National Programs said Tuesday.
Though a variety of age assurance methods exist, effectively enforcing them “remains a persistent challenge,” said IAPP contributors Katelyn Ringrose and David Sullivan in an analysis Monday. Ringrose is a privacy lawyer at McDermott Will, while Sullivan is executive director at Digital Trust and Safety Partnership.
Days after the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced a lawsuit against the city of San Jose for using Flock Safety’s automated license plate readers (ALPRs) to conduct location searches without obtaining a warrant (see 2511190008), the organization released research on how the technology is used for surveillance.
The California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) has included a private right of action since it was established in 1967, and weakening this and other protections under the wiretapping statute would lead to abuse, said privacy experts Don Marti of the vendor Aloodo and Robert Tauler, an attorney, in an AdExchange op-ed Thursday.
Teens and parents in a small sample preferred parent-led, flexible and transparent design approaches to social media safety features over stricter, one-size-fits-all policies, particularly age verification, according to a report by the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) published Wednesday.
BigID added data mapping using agentic AI to its privacy compliance software, the vendor said Wednesday. The feature automates and visualizes personal data flows, it added. “BigID uses agentic AI to interpret Record of Processing Activities (RoPA) details and dynamically map data collection, use, transformation, and transfers -- surfacing risky or unintended flows to help mitigate the risk of compliance issues or audit failures.”
The Electronic Privacy Information Center recommended in a report released Monday that the acquisition and use of spyware by state government agencies should be banned. Government use of spyware “comes at great cost to privacy, free speech, and free association,” and there’s no way to deploy it “without violating Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights,” the report said.
State laws that require age verification to access adult websites fail a constitutional cost-benefit analysis and are easy to circumvent, particularly for teens, according to a study by free-market think tank Phoenix Center.