Privacy in 2024 – New York Law Student Privacy Law Association

Happy New Year Everyone,

We on the PLA E-Board are dedicated to providing you a better experience every year. We hope you are as excited for this upcoming semester as we are.

2024 Next Generation of Antitrust, Data Privacy, and Data Protection Scholars.

Come learn about antitrust law, privacy law, and their overlap. This conference is hosted by the ABA Antitrust Law section and NYU School of Law. It will take place on Friday, January 26, from 8:50am ’till 6:00pm.

Welcome – 2024 Next Generation of Antitrust, Data Privacy, and Data Protection Scholars

The 8th biennial Next Generation conference, which has expanded beyond Antitrust to include Data Privacy and Data Protection, will be held on January 26, 2024. The A. Online registration by Cvent

Regulation of Online Harms

How do we balance the duty to protect the freedom of expression and privacy against the right to not be harmed on the internet? This is a great question, and it will be answered in a remote talk by Nick Boyce. This event is remote. It will be on Tuesday, January 30, from 1-2pm. Join here or with meeting id: 295 016 817 851 and passcode: zPcNLN !

Regulation of Online Harms – New York Law Student Privacy Law Association

How can we protect people from online hate? To do so requires a balancing act between regulation to curb the harm and protections for freedom of expression and privacy.

Privacy News:

Meta runs into more trouble with the EU for target ads and tracking.

Meta has violated EU law by making it more difficult to remove consent for tracking then it is to consent. This is following news last fall, when Meta forced users to pay to avoid tracking.

Meta faces another EU privacy challenge over ‘pay for privacy’ consent choice | TechCrunch

Adtech giant Meta’s bid to keep tracking and profiling users of Facebook and Instagram in Europe in spite of the bloc’s comprehensive data protection laws Adtech giant Meta’s bid to keep tracking and profiling users of Facebook and Instagram in Europe in spite of the bloc’s comprehensive data protection laws is facing another privacy rights challenge.

EU has created comprehensive A.I. laws that prohibits certain AI that infringes privacy rights, like mass scraping of facial images.

This article, published by our speaker Adam Gertz, explains the scope of the Artificial Intelligence Act enacted in the EU and its effects on AI that threatens to infringe privacy.

EU to Enact Comprehensive A.I. Regulations

Like the GDPR, the AIA will impose regulations on entities that provide (create/produce) and/or deploy (use) AI systems in the EU, regardless of an entity’s location. This means that if you are a U.S. based company that plans to market its AI product in the EU and such product interacts with EU citizens OR you are a U.S. based company that deploys an AI product in the EU, you can be subject to the AIA.

Privacy: What to expect in 2024.

This was a live panel just this week with three leading privacy experts. Listen as they discuss what 2024 holds for those of us interested in privacy.

Best,
Jon Welgrin
Social Chair, Privacy Law Association
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Please reach out with anything!