Privacy Corner Newsletter: April 10, 2025
🔹 EU Advocate General Backs Conditional Consent –
A new opinion from the EU’s top legal advisor says offering a newsletter in exchange for personal data can be lawful, as long as users are informed and the service is genuinely optional.
🔹 CCPA Narrows Scope of ADMT Rules –
California’s privacy regulator has clarified that targeted advertising does not count as automated decision-making under the CCPA, easing compliance pressure on businesses that rely on behavioral data.
🔹 UK Justice Ministry Develops Predictive Policing Tool –
The UK government is piloting an AI system to identify individuals at risk of committing murder based on prior offenses and vulnerability factors, raising serious privacy and ethics questions.