An August settlement between the Massachusetts attorney general and a property management company over its shortcomings in handling a cybersecurity breach is a cautionary tale for any business collecting and storing consumer data, said a Hudson Cook lawyer in a blog post Aug. 29.
Age-estimation technology and its role in reducing regulatory burden is gaining attention in industry and data privacy circles, an official with BBB National Programs said Friday.
Maryland’s attorney general could make privacy rules despite lacking direct rulemaking authority from the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA), WilmerHale’s Samuel Kane said Thursday during a webinar by Privado, a compliance vendor. That could tighten requirements under the state's comprehensive privacy law taking effect next month, the privacy attorney said. Meanwhile, MODPA is set to break ground for state privacy laws due to its unique data minimization provision, but companies can prepare now by more closely documenting how they use data, Kane said.
A Chinese toy seller violated children’s privacy law by allowing a third party in China to collect children’s geolocation data without parental consent, the FTC alleged in an enforcement action announced Wednesday.
Disney violated children’s privacy law by allowing illegal collection of minors' personal data on YouTube, the FTC alleged in a $10 million settlement announced with Disney on Tuesday.
The FTC should deny a request to vacate an agency order against the CEO of a “stalkerware” app given the egregiousness of the privacy violations, consumer advocates said in recent comments to the FTC (see 2507180024).
The Securities and Exchange Commission won’t pursue enforcement action against Zoom over allegations the company illegally shared user data with Chinese entities, the company said in a Friday filing with the agency.
Nigeria's data protection authority (DPA) launched a sector-by-sector probe of organizations suspected of failing to comply with the country's data protection law, it announced Monday.
Though California is the leader in privacy legislation and regulation, other states are stepping up their enforcement actions, said a blog post last week by McGuire Woods lawyers. Recent actions by Connecticut and Nebraska attorneys general "highlight an important shift: states beyond California are not only enacting laws aimed at safeguarding privacy, they are taking action to demonstrate that those laws have teeth," they wrote.
Google and YouTube will pay a combined $30 million to resolve a children's privacy lawsuit that alleged the companies collected personal data and information without consent and used it to deliver targeted ads in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), California privacy laws and other similar state laws (see 2505120037)