Politico reports U.S. state privacy laws passed in 2023 were affected by lobbyist influence. The lobbying focus on state privacy laws could "influence what a federal law may look like," Electronic Frontier Foundation Senior Legislative Activist Hayley Tsukayama said. Full story
TechCrunch reports the High Court of Kenya barred cryptocurrency startup Worldcoin from collecting Kenyans' data and directed the company to preserve information collected from 19 April to 8 Aug. The action follows a petition filed by Kenya's Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, which ordered Worldcoin's parent company, Tools for Humanity, to stop iris scans and personal data collection in May.Full story
The Jordan News reports the Parliament of Jordan's lower house approved the proposed Data Protection Law. The bill will apply to covered entities retroactively and establish a regulator, the Personal Data Protection Council, within the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship. The bill would take effect six months after being published in the Official Gazette of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.Full story
In an op-ed for The Hill, Open Society Foundations U.S. Executive Director Laleh Ispahani wrote on the need to address U.S. comprehensive data privacy legislation to help generate a path for artificial intelligence rules. Ispahami explained the increased attention to AI and desires to address deployments "shouldn't derail nearly-completed work" on data privacy.
MediaPost reports the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California will likely allow health care privacy-related claims under federal and state wiretapping laws to proceed. Facebook users alleged Meta tracked visits to health care websites and sold data collected during those visits. U.S.
Privacy and technology policy advisor Anne Toth joined Venable as senior director of privacy services. The law firm said Toth, former director of Alexa Trust at Amazon and vice president of people and policy at Slack Technologies, brings 25 years of experience in tech policy issues, including data privacy, protection and governance. Full story
Some requirements among U.S. comprehensive state privacy laws are establishing a duty of care, a concept that asks for proper due diligence before processing personal data. IAPP Westin Fellow Anokhy Desai, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, and Hintze Law Partner Sam Castic, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP, PLS, explore how the 12 current state laws set this duty and how companies can comply while also explaining how the standard differs from a duty of loyalty.Full story
Brazil's data protection authority, the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, unveiled its proposed regulations for international data transfers. The draft proposal "aims to regulate international transfers of personal data and the presentation of the standard contractual clauses model." The consultation period is open until 14 Sept.Full story
Under a proposed order with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, consumer credit reporting company Experian Consumer Services will pay USD650,000 and ensure consumers are offered a way to opt-out of marketing messages. A complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, on behalf of the FTC, claims Experian spammed consumers with unsolicited emails after they registered for an account to manage their credit information.
The White House will hold a meeting with officials from several consumer protection enforcement agencies to discuss "harmful data broker practices" as part of the Biden administration's push to better protect U.S. citizens' privacy, CyberScoop reports. Meanwhile, the U.S.