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The law firm that has represented data broker Kochava in its 3-year legal battle with the FTC over privacy is seeking to withdraw due to "serious and irreparable breakdown in communication."

prior: www.mediapost.com/publications...

The Draghi Dilemma: The Right and the Wrong Way to Undertake GDPR Reform There has been much interest in the report on European competitiveness issued in September 2024 by former Italian Prime Minister and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi at the request of Euro...

“In order to protect fundamental rights, maintain legal certainty, and continue to ensure a high level of protection, any reform should be evidence-based, targeted, transparent, and further the EU’s values” (Christopher Kuner in this new FPF guest post)

#GDPR #Draghi

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State Attorneys General & Privacy: Enforcement Trends, 2020-2024

📢 NEW: EPIC published a new report today that examines how state Attorneys General are advancing privacy enforcement across the U.S. (2020–2024).

220+ cases. 35 letters. 20 investigations.

Read more: epic.org/state-ag-pri...

AI Growth Lab

Big #AI regulatory proposal from the UK Government, but not in the way many people think of regulation.

This proposal is almost exclusively focused on facilitating responsible AI development through sandboxes, but with a twist…

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🔔 Public records-based reporting should be free. @404media.co and @wired.com are leading the way.

Hear why this is a public service and good for business, ft. @josephcox.bsky.social, @katie-drummond.bsky.social, Caitlin Vogus, and Lauren Harper.

🗓️ Oct. 29, 2 pm EDT

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MEPs are preparing to call for EU copyright rules to apply to all generative AI systems placed on the EU market, even if trained abroad. A new compromise backs making respect of EU copyright law a market entry requirement under the AI Act.
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BBC article text: “Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, says official ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a cyber-attack. The platform, which has more than 200 million users worldwide, says hackers had targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users but the Discord platform itself was not breached. People can provide ID photos to verify their age on Discord - a networking hub for players to chat and share files with others in the gaming community. The leaked data may involve personal information, partial credit card details and messages that were exchanged with Discord's customer service agents, the San-Francisco-based company says.”

When people warn about the privacy and security risks of mandating digital age verification, this is exactly what they mean. It’s not hypothetical www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Netherlands weighs in on the EU’s digital simplification agenda. Key message: focus on legal clarity, not deregulation. It also calls for streamlined governance of EU boards and, on the AI Act, urges simplification over delays.
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Governor Newsom signs data privacy bills to protect tech users | Governor of California

Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 566, requiring all browsers to offer a setting that sends an OOPS signal, letting Californians opt out of third-party data sales as per CPPA.
www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/08/g...

The Commission has launched a tool crafted to help stakeholders determine whether they are subject to legal obligations and understand the steps they need to take to comply. ai-act-service-desk.ec.europa.eu/en

Digital sovereignty is on the agenda of the next European Council summit. Draft conclusions seen by MLex show EU leaders set to reaffirm the bloc’s regulatory autonomy and urge lawmakers to fast-track files related to simplification.
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Meta and Apple close to settling EU cases US Big Tech groups in final stages of agreeing deal with Brussels to avoid series of escalating fines

Meta and Apple "are in the final stages of agreeing a deal with European regulators to change a range of business practices after being fined a total of €700mn in April for breaching the EU’s landmark Digital Markets Act, according to officials briefed on the discussions."

The decision from DPC on TikTok’s transfers of EEA User Data to China was just published! See linkedin.com/posts/luisalbe….

The Commission has just published a draft guidance and a template for serious incident reporting under the EU AI Act, together with a public consultation open until November 7.
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California Finalizes Regulations to Strengthen Consumers' Privacy

Shaped by years of public input, California Finalizes Major New Privacy Rules! The CPPA has approved new regs on: - Cybersecurity audits - Risk assessments - ADMT - Insurance - CCPA updates 🗓️ Effective 1/1/26 Final docs coming soon to the CPPA website. Read more: cppa.ca.gov/announcement...

JUST IN: A federal judge in Illinois has thrown out the Trump administration's lawsuit against the state that claims IL's workforce privacy law conflicts with federal immigration enforcement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Mark Zuckerberg Plans to Shake Up Meta’s A.I. Efforts, Again

NEWS: Meta will announce an AI reorganization today, dividing the Superintelligence division into four units

weighing some cuts or employees moved from AI division

considering licensing closed source models to build new AI products

w/ @elitan.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/t...

🎙️PODCAST: Earlier this year, I sat down with @sbolinger.bsky.social to discuss his new documentary, "Privacy People," which tells the story of the rise of the privacy profession. In his exhaustive work, he traveled around the word to interview AND film leaders in the space: iapp.org/news/a/behin...

Privacy People Privacy People is a documentary film exploring the importance of privacy, the impact of big data and surveillance, and the evolving role of privacy professionals. Featuring interviews with privacy exp...

To learn more about "Privacy People," check out the two trailers here: privacypeoplefilm.com

🎙️PODCAST: Earlier this year, I sat down with @sbolinger.bsky.social to discuss his new documentary, "Privacy People," which tells the story of the rise of the privacy profession. In his exhaustive work, he traveled around the word to interview AND film leaders in the space: iapp.org/news/a/behin...

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner, New Zealand just issued a Biometric Processing Privacy Code that will create specific privacy rules for agencies (businesses and organisations) using biometrics and give New Zealanders confidence about the use of their sensitive personal information.

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg

BREAKING: The EU Commission has released a mandatory template for AI developers to disclose training data. Unlike the Code of Practice, this is not optional. It could have global fallout, as rights holders abroad might use it to sue over copyright.
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An image with a dark blue background filled with white digital code. At the top, the flags of the European Union and the United Kingdom are displayed side-by-side. The main text, "Draft renewal of the UK adequacy decisions," is in white, enclosed by light blue angular brackets. In the bottom left corner, there's small white text that reads "© LightfoLife via Adobe Stock," and in the bottom right corner, the European Commission logo is visible.

Data protection is a cornerstone of EU values.

Today, we've launched the process to renew our adequacy decisions with 🇬🇧.

This would ensure personal data can continue to flow safely between the EU and the UK beyond December 2025.

More info ↓
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"The White House is set to use its forthcoming AI Action Plan to take aim at state and federal AI regulations while unleashing land and energy for data centers and cutting back environmental restrictions, three people who were provided details of the plan’s contents told POLITICO Friday."

Beautiful, and thoughtful. For just one example, see this excerpt. I'm increasingly captivated by the idea that "attention is all you need" is both the rallying cry for transformers and an exhortation for us to preserve ours.

Opinion | The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind

Phenomenal article by @meghanor.bsky.social on the ripple effects generative AI is having on creative writing and the mind. As an editor and writer, the issues she so thoughtfully unpacks here really hits home. A highly recommended long read.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results | TechCrunch DuckDuckGo's new search feature comes as the internet is being flooded with AI-generated slop.

DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results

Why Is ChatGPT Telling People to Email Me?

For Times insider, where reporters tell the story behind a story, I wrote about how ChatGPT tipped me off to an important phenomenon, by telling the people affected to email me.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/t...