Lines have been drawn for some time now regarding where U.S. lawmakers are willing to go with preemption provisions in the proposed American Data Privacy and Protection Act. Those lines were defined back in 2019, and lawmakers' willingness to cross them for a compromise is still a tall task neither ...

A new era of children’s privacy rules has arrived. New laws focusing on the safety and mental health of kids and teens will have wide-ranging implications for the design of digital systems. California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, which will go into effect July 1, 2024, is the first law in the ...

On Sept. 2, Ireland's Data Protection Commission issued a landmark decision concerning the processing of children’s data in connection with the Instagram social media service. The decision, issued to Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (Facebook Ireland Limited at the time of commencement of this inquiry...

In 2017, I moved from Silicon Valley back to my home country of Kenya in East Africa. In 2018, I hosted Nairobi’s first ever IAPP event — a Privacy After Hours session on Data Privacy Day. And, years after my November 2015 formative reflection on trans-Atlantic privacy, A Newbie’s Safe Harbor Odysse...

New York’s Attorney General Letitia James is a longtime public servant who has regularly and repeatedly shown her commitment to protecting consumer rights and privacy. James began her legal career as a public defender for the Legal Aid Society before becoming an assistant attorney general. In 2013, ...