Navigating data protection requirements can be complicated in human resources. Adding AI and associated risks creates a different set of challenges. But regulators and employment leaders opine current data protection principles can offer a path to boost EU AI Act compliance, IAPP Staff Writer Caitlin Andrews reports from the IAPP AI Governance Global Europe 2025.Full story
U.S.-based biotechnology company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals will purchase genetic testing company 23andMe and its biometric databases for USD256 million, CNBC reports. With 23andMe's bankruptcy status, the deal is pending approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Cooley Partner Kristen Mathews, CIPP/US, analyzed how brain monitoring technology poses challenges to mental privacy and how it could be regulated. "When it comes to privacy, the lesson is clear: businesses can shape their own destiny by proactively adopting ethical design principles and building trust with consumers," she wrote.Full story
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is set to introduce a bipartisan bill to prevent AI companies from retaliating against whistleblowers, Punchbowl News reports. The bill would protect employees at AI companies from reporting security risks, aiming to promote safe and secure AI innovation.Full story
Cryptocurrency company Coinbase is facing a class-action lawsuit after users claimed its identity verification systems violate the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, Cointelegraph reports. The lawsuit alleged Coinbase violated BIPA because it allowed third-party companies to "use its software to verify and authenticate users, including Plaintiffs, and its software does so by collecting biometric data."Full story
South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission held a joint meeting with other MyData platform information transmission agencies.
Brain-computer interfaces, technology implanted in the brain to help control technology, are becoming an increasingly helpful tool for individuals with disabilities, The Wall Street Journal reports. University of Pennsylvania Neurosurgeon Dr.
Italy's data protection authority, the Garante, issued a 5 million euro fine to the company operating the Replika chatbot and launched an investigation to ensure the accuracy of personal data processed by chatbot's AI model. Beginning in February 2023, U.S.-based Luka did not provide the Garante with legal bases about its processing operations and with its privacy notice.
A bipartisan coalition of 40 state attorneys general sent a joint letter to U.S. Congress expressing opposition to the proposed 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulation in the budget reconciliation bill.
Educators are using AI-detection tools to ensure students do not use AI to complete classwork, though students are concerned their work will be wrongly flagged by these systems, The New York Times reports. A study by the University of Maryland found the tools may not be suited to detect AI in classwork yet, as the systems inaccurately flag human-created content as AI approximately 6.8% of the time.Full story