Data Privacy Week is an international effort to empower individuals and businesses to respect privacy, safeguard data and enable trust. This year’s theme is ‘Take ...

CMI Media Group, a WPP company (NYSE: WPP), alongside sister agency Compas, today announced the promotion of Leanne Smith to Chief Data Privacy Officer across both organizations. The dual-agency appointment underscores sustained business growth and a strategic commitment to staying ahead of evolving client needs,

The United States still does not have a single comprehensive federal privacy law resembling the GDPR. That does not mean Congress is standing still. Quite the opposite. By September 2026, lawmakers in the 119th Congress had introduced a sprawling collection of federal proposals addressing consumer privacy,

When Connecticut Attorney General William Tong described granting the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to Treasury Department records as potentially the largest data breach in American history, the alarm wasn't just about yet another ...

Volume of data subject requests nearly doubled over the past year, with the cost of processing them soaring to $400,000 per 1 million identities Dramatic increase in the number of do-not-sell requests has massive implications for companies that share data ...

Data privacy regulations aren’t known for being light reading. That doesn’t make it easy for businesses to become compliant. When one law refers to data subjects, another to residents, another to consumers, and another to customers, where should you begin?

Most of the data that mobile apps collect are used for non-essential purposes like third-party advertising, a new study finds. Almost everybody would want to keep their personal information private and away from prying eyes, but just how much do they value ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Pam Kaur covers fintech and bank tech innovation and regulation. For years, data privacy in ...

Ever since the September 2017 Equifax data breach that exposed the personal information of 147 million Americans, and the many other high-profile data breaches that have happened since, data security and data privacy have become pressing boardroom-level ...