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  • US lawmakers find bipartisanship in opposition to UK’s order on Apple encryption back door
    on June 6, 2025 at 10:04 am

    A U.S. House subcommittee hearing aimed at reviewing the U.K.-U.S. Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act spurred bipartisan opposition to the U.K. government seeking a back door to encrypted user data stored on Apple’s cloud. IAPP News Editor Joe Duball reports on the common ground found between subcommittee members and how Congress might approach potential data sharing friction stemming from the U.K.’s order.Full story

  • US Senate committee looks to tie ban on state AI laws to federal broadband funding
    on June 6, 2025 at 9:32 am

    Republican members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation are proposing an alternative to the 10-year moratorium on state laws attempting to regulate AI in the Senate version of the House of Representatives’ reconciliation bill, The Hill reports. As proposed, the Senate bill would bar states from accessing federal broadband funding if they pass AI regulations for a period of 10 years.Full story

  • A view from DC: Double toil and trouble in Connecticut’s privacy amendment
    on June 6, 2025 at 9:14 am

    IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, offers his take on the latest privacy and AI governance developments in the nation’s capital and around the U.S. This week, he explores the legislative activity in Connecticut this session, which saw lawmakers amend the state’s comprehensive privacy law with several significant changes, including lowering the data processing threshold for businesses from 100,000 to 35,000 consumers.Full story

  • USDA suspends its effort to obtain individuals’ personal information
    on June 6, 2025 at 9:10 am

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture has paused its efforts to obtain the personal information of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participants after advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against the USDA, The New York Times reports. The lawsuit claimed the USDA was attempting “to round up the sensitive personal data of tens of millions of economically vulnerable Americans with callous indifference for the mandatory privacy protections enshrined in federal law.”Full story

  • OpenAI pushes back against order to save users’ ChatGPT logs
    on June 6, 2025 at 9:08 am

    OpenAI is fighting an order from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York requiring the company to maintain users’ ChatGPT messages, Ars Technica reports. OpenAI said the court order forces the company to “jettison its commitment to allow users to control when and how their ChatGPT conversation data is used, and whether it is retained.”Full story

  • EDPB adopts transfer guidelines to third countries, presents SPE reports
    on June 6, 2025 at 9:08 am

    The European Data Protection Board adopted the final version of its guidelines regarding data transfers to third-country data protection authorities during its latest plenary meeting. Additionally, the EDPB presented two Support Pool of Experts reports that provide training material on AI and data protection. The first report “Fundamentals of Secure AI Systems with Personal Data” looks to address current AI needs and skill gaps, while the other report “Law & Compliance in AI Security & Data Protection” contains a training program for data protection officers.Full story

  • IAPP LinkedIn Live: Meta’s Risk Evolution
    on June 6, 2025 at 9:07 am

    IAPP Vice President and Chief Knowledge Officer Caitlin Fennessy, CIPP/US, will host a LinkedIn Live 10 June with Meta Vice President of Policy and Deputy Chief Privacy Officer Rob Sherman to discuss Meta’s risk management processes. The event will also analyze organizational efforts to develop comprehensive AI and cybersecurity risk assessment standards.Full story

  • ICO launches AI, biometrics strategy
    on June 6, 2025 at 9:00 am

    U.K. Information Commissioner John Edwards announced the launch of the ICO’s AI and biometrics strategic efforts at the authority’s AI All-Party Parliamentary Groups event. Edwards said the ICO will be “ramping up our scrutiny across the AI ecosystem — focusing particularly on areas where there is the potential for public benefit but we know there are concerns and a real risk of harm.”Full story

  • Tech companies look to clarify hacker names
    on June 6, 2025 at 9:00 am

    Technology companies Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto and Google announced they will work to create a glossary aiming to clarify hacker group names, Reuters reports. The initiative will work to provide information about specific hackers to victims of cyberattacks and identify which groups are potentially responsible.Full story

  • 25 leaders, 25 moments at 25 years: The Snowden disclosures
    on June 6, 2025 at 8:55 am

    As part of its 25th anniversary, the IAPP celebrates 25 trailblazing innovators and 25 defining moments in the last quarter century that helped establish the privacy and digital governance profession. This week, we look at Edward Snowden’s exposure of the U.S. government’s ability to surveil citizens and its intelligence partners and how it changed international data sharing practices.Full story

  • A view from Brussels: Where does Brussels stand on sovereignty?
    on June 6, 2025 at 8:34 am

    IAPP Managing Director, Europe, Isabelle Roccia, CIPP/E, writes it’s hard to tell where Brussels stands on sovereignty. But, she said, the EU must reconcile its ambitions, ways to achieve them and the marketplace and geopolitical realities at play. She discusses “signs of robust posturing on sovereignty coming from some corners of industry, European Parliament, (European) Commission services and member states alike.”Full story

  • Canada’s OPC releases annual report
    on June 6, 2025 at 8:20 am

    Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne released his office’s annual report, detailing progress made on his strategic plan. “At a time when the personal information of Canadians is being collected, used, and shared at an unparalleled pace and volume, on a global scale, effective privacy protection requires more than the status quo,” he said.Full story

  • Age assurance and privacy: Regulatory trends in youth online protection
    on June 5, 2025 at 10:51 am

    While global digital regulators are prioritizing children and teenagers’ online safety, their approaches “vary significantly across jurisdictions,” Baker McKenzie Technology and Privacy Partner Jonathan Tam, CIPP/C, CIPP/US, and International Advisor Elizabeth Denham write. They analyze the efforts regulators in Canada, the EU, U.K. and U.S. are undertaking despite their, at times, “divergent legal frameworks,” while exploring how companies should go about responding to those actions.Full story

  • DAA’s Self-Regulatory Principles undergoing review with eye toward leveraging IBA data with AI
    on June 5, 2025 at 10:00 am

    The Digital Advertising Alliance launched a review on the application of its Self-Regulatory Principles to the use of AI to leverage interest-based advertising data. The DAA’s Principles and Communications Committee will convene multistakeholder meetings to determine what, if any, subsequent guidance should be issued for using IBA data in the context of AI. IAPP Staff Writer Alex LaCasse has the details. Full story

  • FTC forum highlights the road to improving children’s online safety
    on June 5, 2025 at 9:31 am

    The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is looking to navigate the complex web of children’s online safety, prioritizing parental consent and age verification to help combat targeted advertising, addictive algorithms and other digital concerns. IAPP Staff Writer Lexie White recaps the agency’s recent forum discussing ongoing and future agency priorities to protect kids online. Full story

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