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Despite being saddled with a long, unwieldy name and no clear acronym, the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act would, if passed by the Senate, mark a big step in the US regulating personal data handling at the national level. Aimed at the data broker industry, (PADFA?) would bar sales of sensitive data to adversarial nations. However, privacy advocates are concerned this is still too narrow to accomplish significant protection of US consumer data.

France passed the Children’s Image Rights Law to protect children by minimizing risks from parents or guardians sharing kids’ photos and videos and from those images being disseminated. Different from laws such as the UK Age Appropriate Design Code, which focuses on data processing and sales, this looks to reduce risk of exposure and reinforces the importance of protecting children, even when they are too young to advocate for themselves. It reinforces rights to access the images, ensures rectification, erasure, and the right to object how personal images are used.

New technologies, increased global threats, and an evolving web of regulations pose multifaceted challenges to companies trying to maximize compliance and minimize security risk. But the 2024 Thales Global Data Threat Report (DTR), which surveyed 3,000 respondents from 18 countries across 37 industries, found not surprisingly, that of those who reported failed a compliance audit, 84% also said they’d suffering a breach. Malware, phishing and ransomware were listed as the fastest growing attack areas, and even though companies indicated they were improving internal coordination to address these challenges, there’s still... Read More >

A new bill signed by Florida Governor DeSantis is poised to ban social media accounts for children under 14 and require parental consent for accounts for teens ages 15-16. Expectations are the bill will face legal challenges from tech companies, but if it stands it would be one of the most restrictive social media bans for children and would set the stage for similar legislation in other states.

The country’s deputy prime minister indicated multi-pronged incidences, including hackers accessing names and addresses of voters, and attempted reconnaissance on lawmakers were conducted.