In our digitally connected world, safeguarding personal data is essential. The question is, how can government and business collaborate to achieve this critical goal? At present, 137 countries have privacy laws and regulations in place — covering more than three-quarters of the world population — w...

While the use of cookie banners for obtaining user consent is becoming a common method to notify users and meet choice obligations, Red Clover Advisors founder and CEO Jodi Daniels, CIPP/US, writes adding a banner to a website "isn't a quick trip to compliance." Daniels said an effective cookie gove...

The Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules Forum is seeking to connect the dots for the international free flow of data through its own rules framework and its newly released Privacy Recognition for Processors System. Both certification systems involve accountability agents, with the BBB National Program...

The California Privacy Protection Agency published its agenda for its 10 May public board meeting. Key discussion items include potential updates on the agency's data broker registration regulations and a nonpublic session to discuss the agency's litigation with the California Chamber of Commerce. F...

The U.S. National Security Agency's disclosure report showed U.S. citizens appeared 31,000 times in the agency's foreign spy reports in 2023, The Wall Street Journal reports. The information was collected under the newly renewed Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows ...