Grief apps raise concerns over data sharing, user privacy
Individuals are using grief apps to navigate loss, though many are concerned about how the apps could collect, store and sell users' sensitive mental health information, BBC News reports.
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Celebrating Data Privacy Day 2025
Join the IAPP for a LinkedIn Live 28 Jan. to mark Data Privacy Day 2025. IAPP President and CEO J.
UnitedHealth updates estimated data breach impacts
UnitedHealth indicated the number of individuals likely impacted by its 2024 ransomware attack stands at approximately 190 million, The Record reports. The company is still determining the scope of the data breach though it said sensitive personally identifiable information might have been stolen including Social Security numbers and health information.Full story
ANPD blocks Worldcoin parent company from paying for biometric data
Brazil's data protection authority, the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, suspended Worldcoin parent company Tools for Humanity's practice of paying for iris scans collected from data subjects. The agency said the financial compensation aspect of the collection might unduly influence a person's desire to hand over biometric data.Full story
New York fines PayPal over alleged cybersecurity lapses
New York State Department of Financial Services announced PayPal will pay a USD2 million penalty to settle allegations of inadequate cybersecurity training and insufficient personnel to manage cybersecurity risks. The fine comes after the state determined PayPal's practices left people's personal information exposed to criminals.Full story
NetChoice asks for further delay of California social media law
MediaPost reports technology trade association NetChoice is asking a U.S. appellate court to block California's Protecting Our Kids From Social Media Addiction Act. The law is currently stayed until the end of the month but NetChoice is asking for an extension while it continues through the appeal process.Full story
Assessing AI literacy needs
Organizations implementing AI technology must ensure AI literacy is assessed to properly meet compliance requirements.
AI, digital policy shifts increase under latest Trump executive orders
U.S. President Donald Trump's policy stances on AI and other digital matters are taking shape via a slew of executive orders issued during the first week of his presidency. IAPP News Editor Joe Duball rounds up Trump's actions on AI, digital financial assets and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.Full story
A view from DC: The first few days of Trump’s AI and privacy agenda
Prioritizing privacy in the absence of clear federal guidelines
The appointment of U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson and the nomination of Mark Meador as commissioner signals "uncertainty around whether (the FTC) will remain as committed to privacy enforcement activity as it has been," Transcend Field Chief Privacy Officer Ron De Jesus, AIGP, CIPM, CIPP/A, CIPP/C, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPT, FIP, writes. De Jesus discusses how the lack of a comprehensive U.S.
A view from Brussels: Europe, Trump II and data transfers
It took less than a week into the U.S. President Donald Trump's mandate for privacy and data transfers to make it to the forefront, IAPP Managing Director, Europe, Isabelle Roccia, CIPP/E, writes. She explains how Trump's order for the resignation of all three Democratic members of the U.S.