The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights announced a finalized rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act to strengthen privacy protections for reproductive health care. The rule bars disclosure of women's protected health information for obtai...

IAB Europe published a response to the European Data Protection Board's opinion on the legality of pay-or-consent models for obtaining valid consent to process personal data. IAB Europe said the opinion creates "legal uncertainty for many businesses beyond large online platforms" and the EDPB made "...

The California State Senate Committee on Rules appointed Drew Liebert, an attorney who most recently served as the Senate majority leader's chief of staff, to the California Privacy Protection Agency Board. Liebert replaces Lydia de la Torre, whose three-year term ended in March.Full story...

The European Data Protection Board issued its 2023 Annual Report. The report contains recaps of the EDPB's adoption of two binding decisions, as well as its urgent binding decision to order Meta to cease all processing of personal data in the European Economic Area.Full story...

France's data protection authority, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés, issued its 2023 annual report, which indicated the regulator received 35% more complaints in 2023 from the general public than in 2022. The CNIL also saw increases in website traffic, particularly to its ...