Data Privacy Roundup

Musings on the Chrome Privacy Sandbox consent pop-up after experiencing one in the wild in Europe. Do people know what they’re opting into?

Class-action attorney Jay Barnes makes the case for why the US **doesn’t** need to pass a dedicated federal data privacy law.

Being able to share information about a group of people without compromising any individual person’s privacy kinda sounds like a form of wizardry. But it’s not. It’s just math.

Rather than directly managing risk and regulatory compliance as a traditional chief privacy would do, Ron De Jesus is like a liaison between Transcend and the CPO community.

Google has said publicly that it will eventually (“soon”) adopt a national approach to privacy compliance in the US. That’s a big deal – but only if Google actually does it.

The APRA is the first serious attempt at a compromise to pass national privacy legislation since the American Data Privacy and Protection Act failed to advance last year.

I spent the week in Washington, DC, attending two privacy- and public policy-focused events and I have a single takeaway from both: Enforcement. Is. Coming.

Here’s some free legal advice from a privacy lawyer: Don’t make privacy claims if you’re not going to stick to them.

If you weren’t able to tune in to the FTC’s PrivacyCon event last week – it was a seven-hour affair, after all – then worry not. We gotchoo.

“Compliance doesn’t have to be a chore, and legal can be a strategic partner,” says Jamie Lieberman, chief legal officer at ad management and monetization platform Mediavine.