Extract from Stephanie Wilkins’s article “Legal Tech’s Predictions for Data Privacy in 2024”
Along with cybersecurity, data privacy was one of last year’s hottest issues aside from generative AI (which raises privacy concerns of its own).
From biometric data to online child safety and everything in between, the focus on protecting data, including PII, ratcheted up in 2023. Tools allowing bad actors to improperly access personal data became more sophisticated, while organizations increasingly found themselves in the hot seat for not adequately respecting or protecting their clients’ or consumers’ information.
At the same time, the patchwork of U.S. state data privacy laws continued to expand, along with additional laws with more industry- or situation-specific implications for privacy, though no uniform national standard has yet emerged. Internationally, we saw more progress with an adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.
The following is a collection of predictions from experts in the legal industry on what we can expect in the area of data privacy in 2024.
