Emphasizing fundamentals and ensuring staff working with AI understand its risks are keys to protecting privacy, said panelists at a privacy risk event Tuesday. Later, another panel emphasized issues surrounding compliance with global rules that regulate AI. DataGrail, a compliance vendor, sponsored the event.
Compliance Techniques
Compliance techniques encompass the strategies, tools and processes organizations use to meet evolving privacy and data protection requirements. Privacy engineers, chief data protection officers and compliance teams deploy methods such as data mapping, privacy impact assessments and automated monitoring to align with new laws in the U.S. and abroad. These techniques help avoid costly enforcement actions and build trust by embedding privacy by design into products and operations.
Florida’s privacy lawsuit last week against Roku surprised some data-protection experts, since the state’s Digital Bill of Rights frequently carries an asterisk in lists of the 20 state comprehensive privacy laws -- if it’s included at all. In the aftermath, however, some privacy experts told Privacy Daily that they’re still not ready to add Florida to the list.
Most changes to the U.K.'s data protection regime will ease data flows between the U.K. and EU, but some should be clarified and monitored, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) said Monday.
Dennis Leuck has joined Mullen Coughlin, where he will serve as a senior partner and litigator in the privacy and security areas, the law firm announced Thursday. Leuck is a member of the IAPP and has previous regulatory experience with the California Department of Consumer Affairs, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, among others.
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.
Former chief privacy officer in the Illinois Attorney General’s Office has joined BakerHostetler's Chicago office, the law firm announced Tuesday. Matthew Van Hise will be a partner in the firm's Digital Assets and Data Management Practice Group and a member of its Digital Risk Advisory and Cybersecurity team. While at the AG's office, Van Hise was also assistant attorney general and chief of the Privacy and Data Security Unit.
An updated International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard for managing privacy compliance programs published this month "could be a good fit for multinational organizations looking to create a unified privacy management framework," Birdie Data Protection Officer Henry Davies said in an IAPP analysis Tuesday.
Nearly one-third of French people in a 2024 survey said they have been confronted on social media with content from people who have died, and half said they would prefer that data on social networks be deleted after their death, French DPA CNIL said Wednesday.
Tyler Bridegan joined law firm Womble Bond, he announced Monday on LinkedIn. He will serve in the firm's Houston office in the privacy and cybersecurity practice, Womble Bond said. Bridegan was director of privacy and tech enforcement at the Texas attorney general's office. He spoke in that capacity last month at the IAPP AI Governance conference (see 2509180057).
Privacy is an ever-evolving landscape, meaning that company privacy policies, technologies and teams must be constantly updated, panelists said Wednesday during a webinar hosted by Didomi, a consent-management software vendor. With enforcement actions by regulators increasing and legislators continuing to implement new laws, companies must stay on top of the latest developments, they added.