- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
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.
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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.
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.
Sorenson Communications agreed to pay $34.6 million and implement a comprehensive compliance program to settle allegations levied by the Federal Communications Commission that its subsidiary illegally retained call content of users who relied on captions to make and receive calls.
Contract workers’ rights are in the spotlight in the U.K. and some EU countries as governments seek to end exploitative practices by eliminating zero-hours contracts, much to the chagrin of some business leaders.
The U.S. Treasury Department has issued a final rule–and created a new division to oversee it–that will attempt to limit outbound investments to China related to sensitive technologies with military applications.
Artificial intelligence is an exciting, new technology and it is well-regulated by old laws and rules already on the books, financial regulators said at Compliance Week’s AI & Compliance Summit at Boston University.
