A recent federal court decision shows that sometimes, saying nothing about privacy is better than misrepresenting what you are promising, a privacy pro said in a blog.
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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.
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The DOJ’s new Bulk Data Transfer Rule provides an avenue to bring claims under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), said IAPP staff member William Simpson in a blog post Monday.
A Nov. 6 joint settlement between three states and software company Illuminate Education over a data breach that exposed students' information highlights regulators' focus on protecting minors’ data, said privacy pros and an attorney in interviews. In addition, the incident and settlement show that no matter what sector a breach occurs in, the principles of information security are similar, the attorney said.
The use of facial recognition technology by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is “reckless” and must stop, said privacy, civil liberties and civil rights groups in a letter to the chief privacy officer of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released Wednesday.
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In 2026, states and regulators will likely focus on many of the same areas they examined previously, including kids’ privacy and AI, said Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, managing director of IAPP, Washington, D.C., in an interview with Privacy Daily. On the federal level, a flood of privacy legislation is expected by year-end, he added.
Age verification is “a wave that keeps coming," in part because there are many options for doing it, said Amy Lawrence, chief privacy officer at adtech company SuperAwesome, on a Squire Patton webinar about app store age verification.
Julie Brill and Daniel Weitzner joined Ethyca's board, the data privacy infrastructure company said Thursday.