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...

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...

Brazil's data protection authority, the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, updated and released its list of ongoing probes into potential General Law for the Protection of Personal Data violations. The list publicizes company names, their industries, descriptions of alleged misconduct and sta...

Denmark's data protection authority, Datatilsynet, announced the creation of a new portal to view data breach statistics. The regulator said statistics posted include "an overview of the total number of reported breaches, which types of breaches are reported and which sectors report them, among othe...

Monday, 20 March was officially French Language Day, as declared by the United Nations in 2010. As a French national, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to flag this fun fact. One way this is relevant (though not necessarily useful) to privacy professionals is that the full text of the EU General Da...