The FTC’s new COPPA amendments would bolster children's privacy by further restricting how companies can collect, use and monetize the data of underage users, shifting a greater deal of responsibility for privacy online to service providers.
As data privacy regulations surge across the globe, U.S. is significantly lagging behind with a lack of federal law on data consent and California being the only state that offers consumer protections.
Against a backdrop of looming privacy regulation, VFS Global’s Group Data Protection Officer, Astrid Gobardhan, looks at the various benefits of privacy investment for organisations – from better security, improved customer confidence, right through to brand enhancement and reduced operational costs.
Without serious privacy reform and a federal law in the US, it may not be possible to draft a Privacy Shield framework that survives another round in the EU court system.
Much like the state privacy legislation that have come before it, the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act of 2024 (MODPA) includes its own unique provisions that will add additional complexities to an organization's compliance efforts and data use strategy.
Approaching privacy and data protection with ethics beyond regulations means assessing its potential to harm people and society, generate negative behavior, or reflect discriminatory patterns. This needs to extend not only to data management but also to account security and transactions.
A new report gave almost half of the 14 states that have laws on the books a failing grade and notes that industry lobbying influence on state data privacy laws has been very strong. California is the only state with a model that was not originally drafted by a big tech outfit.
International firms, particularly those big Tech firms with operations in major markets such as China, EU and the US, are facing an increasingly challenging task in the evolving data security and personal information protection regulatory environment.
Consent is unmanageable at today’s scale. New proposed privacy regulations seek to establish a set of data rights that cannot be signed away.
Aimed at restricting the flow of sensitive American data to "countries of concern" like China and Russia, this new executive order, signed by President Biden in February, has been framed by some as a step toward safeguarding the personal data of U.S. citizens from foreign threats.
