May 2, 2025 Dear Colleagues, In our capacities as scholars, teachers, and leaders of the Privacy Law Scholars Foundation (PLSF) and the Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC), we write to express our grave concern about ongoing threats to privacy and democracy in the United States. Each of us brings different perspectives on what the law…
Category: Announcements
NIST Releases Updated Privacy Framework
Seen at Hunton Andrews Kurth’s Privacy & Information Security Law Blog: On April 14, 2025, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) announced the release of a draft update to its voluntary Privacy Framework, “NIST Privacy Framework 1.1 Initial Public Draft” (“PFW 1.1”). The update is designed to address current privacy risk management needs, enhance usability,…
Data Protection Commission Announces commencement of inquiry into X Internet Unlimited Company (XIUC)
11th April 2025 — The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today announced the commencement of an inquiry into the processing of personal data comprised in publicly-accessible posts posted on the ‘X’ social media platform by EU/EEA users, for the purposes of training generative artificial intelligence models, in particular the Grok Large Language Models (LLMs). The…
New Book: ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY
Law professor and privacy law scholar Dan Solove recently announced the publication of his new book, On Privacy and Technology. Can privacy law keep up with new digital technologies such as AI? The book is a short accessible overview of my thinking about privacy for the past 25 years. I tried my best to make…