🎙️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...

Fascinating panel here at #GPS25 moderatied by Bojana Bellamy with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Tools for Humanity Co-founder Alex Bania.

With the rise of agentic AI, TFH seeks to offer a global proof-of-human verification system In a privacy-preserving way, according to Bania and Altman.

NEW: President Trump has reportedly fired Democratic FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya, according to a post by Bedoya on X (screenshots below).

Reuters reports both Demoractic FTC Commissioners - Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter - have been fired.

✅ the latest developments with the Social Media Minimum Age amendment
✅ the geopolitical and Big Tech shifts in rolling back online safety and trust policy.

And much more. Listen here and let me know what you think.

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The IAPP's Joe Duball reports on the hearing and looks at the landscape for where children's online safety legislation is heading in the 119th Congress.

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... including the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission.

The @iapp.bsky.social's @actualcandrews.bsky.social rounds up the latest news on this rapidly developing area.

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NEW: The AI Action Summit in Paris is ground zero this week for a new era of AI policy, one that calls for more deregulation and less guardrails.

The IAPP's Joe Duball reports on the latest: iapp.org/news/a/dereg...

CFPB Director Rohit Chopra has finished out his term leading the agency. Here’s his letter to Trump, announced on Twitter.

🎙️ NEW PODCAST: U.S. state-level privacy and AI legislation is already ramping up. I recently spoke with Connecticut State Senator James Maroney, who helped lead the state's privacy law to passage, to discuss his work with new AI legislation in the state: iapp.org/news/a/us-st...

NEWS: The Trump administration asked the 3 Democrat members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to resign or be fired. What will it mean for the EU-U.S. Data Protection Framework?

The IAPP's Alex LaCasse reports on this potentially significant development. iapp.org/news/a/trump...

NEWS: As expected, the Trump administration has rescinded the former Biden administration's sweeping AI executive order. The @IAPP's Caitlin Andrews reports on the latest, with insight from BSA's Shaundra Watson and @geomblog.bsky.social:

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Slight update. She said she’ll stay on until Jan 31. x.com/linakhanftc/...

🎙️NEW PODCAST: I recently caught up with the inimitable Omer Tene to discuss the year in AI governance, privacy and digital policy in the U.S.

From developments in AI to children's privacy, FTC enforcement to privacy litigation, there was lots to cover. iapp.org/news/a/digit...

🇦🇺 ICYMI: There was a lot of legislative activity in Australia last week. Many of us here in the U.S. were on Thanksgiving holiday. So here's our latest news roundup to help catch you up on a new set of reforms to the nation's Privacy Act and social media ban for minors.

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With AI’s rapid development, @ruchowdh.bsky.social warns that children should not be test subjects of this tech. She also says the “splinternet” is happening, creating a patchwork of systems instead of a global internet. This has implications for national security, culture and much more.

Next up, @marietjeschaake.bsky.social discusses how Big Tech is threatening democracy. #DPC2024

This year’s IAPP Data Protection Congress is now underway. Leading today’s opening general session is European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders.

He says the commission is working to improve enforcement coordination among the new digital regulations.

Hello Bluesky and hello Brussels! Happy to be here at #DPC24 for another IAPP Data Protection Congress. 🇧🇪