U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Senior Counsel Shannon Smith said during an IAPP LinkedIn Live 15 April that the Senate will shortly begin its formal legislative work on the proposed American Privacy Rights Act. Smith, a lead Senate drafter of the APRA discussion draft,...

While public attention is on the pending European Data Protection Board decision on the legality of Meta's pay-or-consent model, Schjødt Lawfirm Partner and Head of Privacy and Data Protection Eva Jarbekk writes the ruling will have far-reaching consequences for numerous companies. Jarbekk said any ...

A proposed order by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges a mental telehealth firm with violating its privacy notice to consumers and misleading them about their cancellation policies, pending approval by a federal judge. The FTC levied a USD7 million fine against Cerebral and its CEO, Kyle Robe...

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement filed a privacy impact assessment allegedly related to the use of commercial telemetry data, FedScoop reports. ICE announced in January that it would end the use of commercial telemetry data after privacy and civil rights groups raised concerns over possi...

Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider will serve as Germany's Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Tagesspiegel reports. Specht-Riemenschneider teaches data law and technology courses at the University of Bonn, and was previously a member of the federal government's Digital A...