Privacy attorneys at Parker Poe predicted more state privacy rulemakings this year in a blog post Monday. “In 2025 we will likely see a higher volume of state regulators initiating rulemakings as a federal privacy law remains evasive and federal agency activity remains unclear.”
Legislation that would allow individuals to sue tech platforms for hosting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) increases privacy protections for victims, Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Tuesday.
Two law firms alerted clients to increased data broker oversight by California in blog posts last week.
Software company Saturn Technologies, maker of the Saturn app for high school students, will pay a penalty of $650,000 for failing to protect users' privacy, New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) said on Friday. An investigation by the AG’s office found that while Saturn claimed only high school students from the same school could interact with each other on the app, the company did not take measures to verify the emails and ages of users, allowing anyone to join and access personal information found on the app.
The General Data Protection Regulation shouldn't become a tiered, risk-based entity, though the European Commission should have more centralized power to enforce it, Charly Helleputte, Squire Patton Boggs EU data privacy attorney, emailed. His comments responded to Axel Voss' recent tiered GDPR proposal. Voss is a German Member of the European Parliament from the European People's Party Group. He discussed his proposal during a March 3-4 Centre for European Policy Studies Ideas Lab panel.
Expect the Trump administration’s FTC to take a less aggressive approach to privacy enforcement than the prior administration, a former FTC enforcer said at a BBB National Programs webinar Thursday. Meanwhile, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has focused on enforcement claims related to geolocation data, said Tyler Bridegan, who heads that state’s privacy enforcement unit.
The U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania Tuesday approved a $6.8 million settlement between Rite Aid and class-action plaintiffs in a data-breach case where the drugstore chain exposed the personally identifiable information (PII) of more than 2 million people in 2024.
A California bill restricting how employers use workplace surveillance tools would go beyond laws in other states, cautioned Fisher Phillips lawyers in a blog post Monday.
California-based Background Alert must shut down through 2028, or face a $50,000 fine for failing to register as a data broker and pay an annual fee, according to terms of a settlement with the California Privacy Protection Agency. CPPA, which announced the agreement Thursday, raised privacy concerns with the people-search company’s business model in its Wednesday order approving the settlement.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is fulfilling statutory work obligations while carrying out the Trump administration’s plan to streamline operations, DOJ said in a filing Monday.