I had the pleasure of speaking recently with Jamal Ahmed on the PrivacyPros Podcast about privacy enforcement and privacy career trends.
Among the questions I tried to address:
Federal Trade Commission authority boost?
H.R. 2668 – The Consumer Protection and Recovery Act – has passed in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The bill amends the Federal Trade Commission Act to provide the FTC with explicit authority to require bad actors to return money earned through illegal activity and to seek both injunctive
Have you been leisurely following California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) litigation thinking, “That’s only for data breaches, not ‘soft’ violations.”
Think again.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office has been busy enforcing CCPA for the past year.
Per a new enforcement report, you had better make sure that:
The Ohio Personal Privacy Act, also known as House Bill 376, is being considered in the Buckeye State.
Here are a few takeaways:
The European Data Protection Board has issued final guidelines on virtual voice assistants.
The guidelines appear to be largely unchanged from the draft issued in February for public consultation.
The main change is noting that even if VVAs are themselves a software service, they always operate through a physical device such as a smart
I spoke this week on Usercentrics’ Tech That Talks program, taking look at personalized ad targeting and the future of cookies.
Among the issues we discussed:
“Nothing ever happens in privacy, the team will manage itself”
This statement, which did not survive the test of time, was shared by one of the privacy pros who participated in this month’s International Association of Privacy Professionals’ Women Leading Privacy networking session. I co-lead the session.
Some pet peeves/needs in leadership that we discussed
As always, it was great fun speaking with Future of Privacy Forum’s lovely and knowledgeable mobility guru Chelsey Colbert during Part 2 of OneTrust DataGuidance’s connected vehicles and data protection presentation.
Here are some takeaways from our chat:
Children’s data isn’t child’s play.
If you have a product or service that collects information from children, you should:
CNIL, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés, which is France’s Data Protection Authority, publishes framework to deal with post-Schrems II cross border transfers following the European Data Protection Board’s final guidelines on supplemental transfer measures: