A court dismissed a class action lawsuit against the NFL that alleged the league violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by employing the Meta-tracking pixel without user notice and consent. Issued Friday, the summary order ruled that an "ordinary person" could not determine a user's Facebook ID through the pixel's transmission.
A North Carolina bill aimed at protecting children on social media cleared a House committee Tuesday. The Commerce Committee voted by voice to advance an amended HB-860 to the Appropriations Committee.
The actual cost to a company from a privacy enforcement action could be many times higher than the regulator's fine, Clarip CEO Andy Sambandam said in an interview. Privacy has become a quickly rising concern for companies amid a growing number of privacy laws and state enforcement actions, he told Privacy Daily.
An appeals court narrowed liability under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) Thursday, ruling it only applied to the disclosure of information that would allow an ordinary person to learn a specific individual's video-watching history.
Guarding the data security and privacy of consumers is just as important for small businesses as it is for large corporations with massive troves of data, said privacy experts and small business owners Monday during a panel hosted by Small Business Privacy.
“Sports teams must navigate a complex network of privacy laws that govern athlete health data," Orrick attorneys blogged Wednesday.
With emerging technologies and issues in the health care space, the role of privacy officers must also evolve and adapt to stay relevant in a changing landscape, said a panel of privacy leaders during the National HIPAA Summit Thursday.
The SEC will provide exemptions to the requirement that certain personally identifiable information be reported to the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT), the commission announced Monday.
AI is an increasing part of privacy compliance jobs, practitioners said at Privado’s Bridge Summit web conference Thursday. Data protection officers (DPOs) are weighing ethics for AI usage across the business, while privacy engineers are mulling how they themselves might use large language models (LLMs) to automate compliance processes, they said.
The FTC released some initial insights from the surveillance pricing study, with findings that indicated intermediaries have access to a large amount of data types and sources, as well as tools that can influence prices that consumers see, said the commission in a blog Friday.