Privacy advocate Vinhcent Le learned at the end of last week he was no longer a board member of the California Privacy Protection Agency, he told us Monday. A strong voice for the consumer and one of the CPPA board’s founding members, Le's exit is concerning, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said.
Days ahead of the Jan. 31 deadline for data broker registration, the California Privacy Protection Agency announced that Connecticut-based data broker Key Marketing Advantage (KMA) agreed to pay $55,800 for failing to register and pay a fee in 2024.
Data brokers have a Jan. 31 deadline to provide the California Privacy Protection Agency with full metrics about their responses in 2023 to privacy rights, Kelley Drye attorneys warned in a blog post earlier this week.
The California Privacy Protection Agency lacks authority to regulate AI, business groups protested during a partially virtual CPPA hearing Tuesday. They urged that the agency pump the breaks on proposed rules for automated decision-making technology (ADMT) and other changes to privacy regulations under the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA). However, workers’ rights groups and consumer privacy organizations urged that it proceed with increasing privacy rules.
Due to “devastating wildfires” across the state, the California Privacy Protection Agency added a hearing and extended comment deadlines by a month in its rulemaking on automated decision-making technology (ADMT) and other changes to privacy regulations, the CPPA said in a notice Friday.