The FTC on Thursday announced its long-awaited update to children’s online privacy rules, which includes new opt-in consent requirements and data retention limits.
The FTC will require GoDaddy to implement a robust information security program after the agency alleged that the website-hosting company failed to secure itself against potentially harmful attacks, the FTC announced Wednesday.
Colorado will step in if the federal government pulls back on privacy enforcement under the second Trump administration, the state’s AG Phil Weiser (D) told Privacy Daily. In an interview, he said privacy will continue to be a priority for the state in 2025, with Weiser hoping to raise awareness with businesses and consumers about their duties and rights under the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA).
The FTC on Tuesday announced two nonmonetary settlements with data brokers related to location data.
Privacy laws in the EU and at the state level in the U.S. serve as a basis for building an AI regulation regime, Morrison Foerster’s Marian Waldmann Agarwal and Marijn Storm said during a webinar about the intersection of privacy and AI last week. The partners discussed recent AI regulatory developments and their intersection with privacy obligations.
Many companies are moving toward a national approach to privacy compliance to account for the growing patchwork of state laws, Wiley attorneys said in a blog post Thursday.
The FTC scored a key enforcement victory in its data privacy lawsuit against Kochava at the motion to dismiss stage, FTC Chair Lina Khan said Wednesday during a Brookings Institution event.
Congress and the Trump administration should consider X platform owner Elon Musk’s unconventional ideas, including possibly shuttering the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Senate Republicans told us in December.
New Republican leadership for the House and Senate Commerce committees could mean a full reset for federal privacy legislation in 2025. That’s according to interviews with incoming Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and incoming House Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky.