U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the creation of four new government departments, including a dedicated Department for Science, Innovation and Technology focused on technical innovations. The changes remove digital and data policy responsibility from the Department for Culture, Media and Sp...

U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to discuss children’s safety online, as well as the need to strengthen data privacy for citizens, among other topics during his State of the Union address Feb. 7. Biden will call for “bipartisan support” of legislation banning targeted advertising and increasing ...

As the data economy grows exponentially, so does the use of privacy-enhancing technologies that rely on artificial intelligence and machine learning to secure individuals’ data, IAPP Principal Researcher, Technology, Katharina Koerner, CIPP/US, and Research and Insight Analyst Brandon LaLonde write....

In Emoi Services LLC v. Owners Insurance Company, the Ohio Supreme Court recently found software is an intangible item that cannot experience direct physical loss or damage and, therefore, the plaintiff’s inability to access or use its software during a ransomware attack was outside the scope of its...

A subcommittee of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee will review a draft financial data privacy bill Feb. 8, ACA International reports. The bill, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., would expand the scope of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to include new data rules, including allowin...