The growing complexity of cybersecurity regulations in the U.S. is raising stakes for a more harmonized approach to support covered entities and regulators alike. IAPP Staff Writer Lexie White reports on the various considerations around regulatory harmonization explored during a recent R Street Institute webinar featuring the Office of the National Cyber Director.Full story
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Google illegally monopolized online searches, The New York Times reports.
Mayer Brown Partner and Cyber Security and Data Privacy Leader for Global Innovation and Adtech Dominique Shelton Leipzig, AIGP, CIPP/US, was named to Forbes' 50 Over 50 list for Innovation. Leipzig, a member of the IAPP Board of Directors and the IAPP AI Governance Center Advisory Board, specializes in consulting companies on their fiduciary obligations in cybersecurity.Full story
Cybersecurity certification and services organization EC-Council pledged USD15 million to advance U.S. cybersecurity programs for more than 50,000 students through the U.S. Office of the National Cyber Director.
The varying jurisdictional requirements related to data disclosure to law enforcement require a "nuanced approach, balancing legal obligations, ethical considerations, and potential risks to individuals," Rakuten Privacy Counsel Li-Rou Jane Foong, CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP, writes.
Monetization platform Patreon agreed to pay USD7.25 million to settle its video privacy lawsuit that claimed the company violated the Video Privacy Protection Act, MediaPost reports. The class-action lawsuit was filed after the company allegedly shared users' data with advertisement-targeting tool Meta Pixel without consent. Editor's note: The IAPP's Jedidiah Bracy discussed U.S.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker, D-Ill., signed a bill overhauling the penalty structure of the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act, Reuters reports.
The social platform X became the latest target of a complaint about how user data is used to train artificial intelligence models, Euractiv reports. Consumer-focused entity Euroconsumers and its subgroup Altroconsumo allege X violated the EU General Data Protection Regulation by not explaining how user data is used and such information is overcollected.
A 13-year-old girl is seeking class-action status for a lawsuit against Meta for implementing allegedly addictive features into its social media platforms, The Washington Post reports. The lawsuit filed in the U.S.
Israel's Knesset enacted major privacy law reforms to the Protection of Privacy Law with Bill No. 13, Or-Hof Law founder Dan Or-Hof, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP, writes.