Technology policy is a tangled bowl of spaghetti. Digital platforms and social media apps operate at the nexus of a wide range of issues, from content moderation and safety to data security and privacy. And there is nothing quite like a congressional hearing to demonstrate just how complex this Gord...

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 ...

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...