Lexie White

California's data broker enforcement entered a new phase when requirements related to consumer requests through the Delete Request and Opt-out Platform became enforceable 1 Aug. At its 7 Aug. board meeting, the California Privacy Protection Agency noted 30% of registered data brokers began processing DROP requests in the first week following the compliance deadline, with 450,000 requests submitted to date.

Members of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism warned that the use of so-called surveillance pricing could have harmful ramifications for consumers. Retailers, airlines and digital platforms are stepping up AI-fueled personalization, using a combination of algorithms and behavioral data to charge consumers different prices for the same item.

The European Data Protection Board's recent draft anonymization and artificial intelligence web scraping guidelines aim to clarify what is considered identifiable data under the EU General Data Protection Regulation while addressing the impacts of modern technology.