IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, offers his take on the latest privacy and artificial intelligence governance developments in the nation's capital and around the U.S. This week, he examines the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's work around sensitive data while outlining a potential litmus test for defining datasets as "sensitive."
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