Utah Attorney General Derek Brown is requesting a U.S. appellate court to overturn an order blocking enforcement of the Minor Protection in Social Media Act, MediaPost reports. The law, passed last year, contains requirements compelling social media platforms to conduct age verification of users and limit the visibility of minors' accounts.
The California Privacy Protection Agency will discuss a new draft on data broker regulations during a 7 March board meeting. The draft includes new definitions of access sessions and consumer deletion list as well as changes to registration information requirements.Full story
IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, offers his take on the latest privacy and AI governance developments in the nation's capital and around the U.S. This week, he digs into how U.S. state attorneys general are allocating funds toward privacy enforcement efforts.Full story
France's competition regulator, the Autorité de la concurrence, is anticipated to fine Apple for antitrust violations related to its App Tracking Transparency feature for iPhones.
The European Commission is preparing a call for evidence on the draft European Data Union Strategy. The Data Union Strategy aims to create a simplified legal framework for businesses and public entities to share data "seamlessly and at scale," while ensuring adequate data privacy safeguards remain in place.
American University Washington College of Law doctoral candidate Natalia Baigorri wrote for Privacy Across Borders on concerns over TikTok's access to large amounts of U.S. consumer information and the ability to potentially share consumer data with its AI systems.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development released a draft AI incident reporting framework. It is intended to help countries adopt a common reporting method while offering flexibility to tailor it to their own AI regulations. The draft framework contains 29 criteria, such as identifying high-risk systems and assessing current and emerging risks.Full story
Future of Privacy Forum Senior Fellow Vice President for Global Privacy Gabriela Zafir-Fortuna and Senior Fellow Christopher Kuner evaluated how the global AI race is impacting the current global data transfer paradigm.
Microsoft launched its EU Data Boundary, a storage service that will allow organizations in the EU to securely store consumer data through Microsoft's cloud services.
The Washington Post reports that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard called the U.K. government's request that Apple build a backdoor into its users' encrypted data an "egregious" violation of the rights of U.S. citizens. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and Rep.