IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, offers his take on the latest privacy and artificial intelligence governance developments in the nation's capital and around the U.S. This week, he examines the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's work around sensitive data while outlining a potential litmus test for defining datasets as "sensitive."Full story
The Illinois Senate passed Senate Bill 2979, which proposes updated language in the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act to address frivolous lawsuits. The proposal, which still requires House approval, would clarify all instances of an individual's unlawful biometric data capture by a single entity amounts to one violation under the BIPA.
On the 12 April edition of The New York Times' "Hard Fork" podcast, IAPP President and CEO J. Trevor Hughes, CIPP, spoke about the introduction of the American Privacy Rights Act, starting at the 28-minute mark. Hughes discussed the key provisions in the new comprehensive U.S. federal privacy law proposal.
Bets are on in the U.S. and beyond, IAPP Managing Director, Europe, Isabelle Roccia, CIPP/E, writes, after news dropped of a viable comprehensive federal privacy bill, the American Privacy Rights Act. While the bill follows many failed attempts at federal privacy legislation over two decades, Roccia explains why it is receiving broad attention.Full story
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission banned alcohol addiction treatment service Monument from disclosing health data to advertisers under a proposed settlement. The order resolves claims Monument had disclosed that information to third-party marketers without consent.
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The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office is seeking public input on how accurate training data impacts generative artificial intelligence models. The idea is to prevent people from getting misinformation when AI hallucinates or has incorrect information. The comment window closes 10 May.
Brazil's data protection authority, the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, published its Process Governance Methodology to organize the authority's data protection efforts. The ANPD said the methodology will "bring an improvement in process management and allows for greater alignment of routines and actions related to our strategic objectives and institutional priorities."Full story
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Partner Jane Horvath, CIPP/G, CIPP/US, and Red Branch Consulting Principal Paul Rosenzweig were appointed by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to serve as special advocates for the Data Protection Review Court.
The introduction of the draft American Privacy Rights Act was an unexpected development in U.S. Congress' efforts to pass a comprehensive data privacy bill.