The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is one step closer to returning to a full slate of commissioners after nomination hearings took place in the Senate last week. Nominees and senators alike seem eager to return to a condition where bipartisanship will be possible at the FTC, an agency with a long his...

IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, offers his take on the latest privacy developments in the nation's capital and around the U.S., including a look at U.S. Federal Trade Commission nominee hearings with the U.S. Senate and some history behind commissioner ...

India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 creates a new framework for the protection of digital personal data, offering four broad rights to "data principals" and setting compliance tasks for "data fiduciaries." Spice Route Legal Partner Mathew Chacko, Counsel Aadya Misra and Associate Ajee...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is soliciting researchers to present their work at its annual PrivacyCon event, which will take place virtually 6 March 2024. FTC organizers are seeking presentations on topics including artificial intelligence, health surveillance and children's privacy. The deadli...

An advisor to the board of directors of Brazil's data protection authority, the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, testified to the Chamber of Deputies Commission on Science, Technology and Innovation regarding data protection impacts of blockchain in public administration. Jeferson Dias Barb...