By Adrianne Appel2024-10-30T13:55:00
In an effort to streamline the enforcement of California’s stringent privacy rules, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA).
The agreement, announced Tuesday, will no doubt give the CPPA the breathing room it wants to enforce its tough privacy rules, which extend to national and international companies that conduct business in California, have customers in California, or have employees who are California residents.
The CPPA has worried that future federal privacy laws would pre-empt California’s strict laws, and it urged federal lawmakers, who were last year considering a broad privacy bill, to exempt California.
2025-01-17T16:09:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Two large data brokers, Mobilewalla and Gravy Analytics, collected billions of records containing sensitive geolocation and personal data of millions of people, and then sold it without their consent, the Federal Trade Commission said.
2024-10-08T13:03:00Z By Shelby Brown
The European Union’s Digital Markets Act is forcing many Big Tech companies to postpone the launch of artificial intelligence-powered features, like Apple Intelligence, over user privacy and data security concerns.
2024-09-27T22:30:00Z By Jeff Dale
The Irish Data Protection Commission fined Meta Ireland 91 million euros (U.S. $102 million) for multiple violations of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation related to the inadvertent storage of user passwords without encryption.
2025-07-26T02:15:00Z By Neil Hodge
Plans to push audit firms to disclose how they use AI in audits have been broadly welcomed, but concerns remain over how corporate data is used, secured, retained, and potentially exposed.
2025-07-25T23:17:00Z By Adrianne Appel
SEC Chair Paul Atkins is soliciting candidates for all five seats on the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, he announced Wednesday.
2025-07-24T17:15:00Z By Ruth Prickett
The U.K. government promised to introduce Sustainability Reporting Standards in its manifesto. Almost a year after it came to power, it launched a consultation on June 25 on draft plans for these standards, which are largely based on those of the ISSB.
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