On 1 Jan., California's Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform, known as DROP, became available to state residents. Part of California's Delete Act, the DROP system thus far has seen more than 215,000 ...

The European Commission reportedly missed a deadline to provide guidance on how operators of high-risk artificial intelligence systems can meet their obligations under the AI Act, another sign of an ...

Editor's note: The IAPP is policy neutral. We publish contributed opinion pieces to enable our members to hear a broad spectrum of views in our domains. 2026 has just started, but it has been anything ...

It has been 40 years since the world was treated to one of the best anti-war songs of all time, "99 Red Balloons." At a time when the prospect of a catastrophic nuclear war seemed like a real ...

State-level momentum for comprehensive privacy bills is at an all-time high. The IAPP Westin Research Center actively tracks the proposed and enacted comprehensive privacy bills from across the U.S.

Countries worldwide are designing and implementing AI governance legislation and policies commensurate to the velocity and variety of proliferating AI-powered technologies. Efforts include the ...

As companies grow, their compliance obligations inevitably expand. New products, markets and business models bring additional regulatory regimes into scope, making the job of internal legal and ...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect in the spring of 2018, replacing the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and imposing new obligations on organizations that process ...

A view from DC: Can there be accountability for web scrapers? Vietnam's first standalone AI Law: An overview of key provisions, future implications Notes from the Asia-Pacific region: Breach exposes ...

Anyone who has even a passing familiarity with data privacy knows it is a frustrating endeavor to comply with the ever-expanding list of data privacy laws worldwide. For companies with a global ...

On July 8, 2021, the state of Colorado officially enacted the Colorado Privacy Act following Gov. Jared Polis, D-Colo., signing the bill. In passing the law, Colorado ...

Notes from the IAPP Canada: The privacy force awakens — What's coming at the IAPP Canada Symposium 2026 Like the other state laws before it, the Iowa privacy law applies to entities that conduct ...