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.
SAN DIEGO -- Companies are good at policing each other to ensure a “trust ecosystem” exists, said Julie Brill, expert in residence at Harvard Law School Innovation Labs and former chief privacy officer at Microsoft (see 2505300023). She was a keynote speaker during the IAPP's privacy and security conference Friday.
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) should revise its guidelines on the interaction between the GDPR and the Digital Services Act (DSA), and refrain from interpreting DSA provisions that fall outside its expertise, the Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe said Friday.
With questions arising about how principles of existing law apply to new technologies, judges are becoming historians and technologists by necessity, said Anne Voigts, Pillsbury Winthrop lawyer, on a SIIA podcast Wednesday.
Amid intensifying regulatory pressure about kids' online safety, Character.AI said Wednesday that it will roll out age assurance and remove “the ability for users under 18 to engage in open-ended chat with AI" on its platform by Nov. 25. The changes respond to questions raised by regulators and in recent news reports “about the content teens may encounter when chatting with AI and about how open-ended AI chat in general might affect teens,” the chatbot platform said.
Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., on Tuesday led a bipartisan group in introducing legislation that would ban AI chatbots for minors and require age verification.
California’s newly minted Digital Age Assurance Act “will likely create significant compliance challenges for many businesses,” blogged David Stauss and two other Troutman privacy lawyers on Monday.
The California DOJ will hold a Nov. 5 public hearing as part of the lead-up to a rulemaking for the state’s new social media addiction regulation, Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) announced Thursday.
Whether age-gating measures truly protect children online or just raise other legal concerns is unclear, speakers said during Hogan Lovells' The Data Chronicles podcast Thursday, which focused on age assurance in the U.S. and U.K.
Biometric information is the most personal information, but it holds benefits for society as long as there are guardrails against its risks, New Zealand officials from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner said Wednesday during an IAPP webinar. The discussion included social media bans for children and AI regulation.