We often focus on consumer policy when discussing privacy laws and obligations, but companies must protect their employee data as well. Navigating complex employee privacy and labor laws in the U.S., for example, can be challenging, and new state laws, like the California Privacy Rights Act, apply m...

The House Committee on Judiciary Finance and Civil Law supported the proposed Minnesota Age-Appropriate Design Code Act with amendments and referred it to the Commerce Finance and Policy Committee.  The Tennessee Senate recommended passing the proposed Tennessee Information Protection Act, while ...

U.S. Federal Trade Commission Division of Advertising Practices attorney Michael Atleson wrote a post regarding the "deeper, emerging threat" of deceiving consumers through generative artificial intelligence. Atleson cited chatbots, voice clones and deepfakes as the more common deployments that "g...

Bloomberg reports Big Tech companies, including Google, Meta and Apple, are lobbying for consideration of data access limitations if Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is reauthorized by U.S. Congress. Current Section 702 provisions allow U.S. intelligence agencies to parse a...

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 takeaways from the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce's probing of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew over the platfo...