NSF announces program to advance PETs
The U.S. National Science Foundation announced the Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing in Practice program that aims to develop privacy-enhancing technologies.
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FTC finalizes Avast data collection ban
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission finalized its order preventing the antivirus company Avast from selling or licensing web browsing data for advertising purposes.
Law enforcement agencies' Clearview AI use doubles
Biometric Update reports law enforcement agencies doubled their use of Clearview AI's facial scanning database within the past year, reaching over 2 million searches within the database. Clearview AI's database has 50 billion images available for law enforcement agencies to identification purposes.Full story
Italy's DPA to enforce against alleged public-sector health data violations
Italy's data protection authority, the Garante, announced it will take enforcement actions against 18 regions and two provinces, respectively, for alleged data protection violations of the Electronic Health Record 2.0.
Evaluating the AI governance landscape of Canada
The IAPP and OneTrust published the fifth and final installment of its series on jurisdictional artificial intelligence governance laws titled "Global AI Governance Law Policy: Canada." This edition provides background information on Canada's efforts to develop a regulatory framework for AI beginning with its Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, released in 2015, which directed government investments in the areas of commercializing AI technologies, AI standards and promoting academic research in the field.
American Privacy Rights Act markup canceled, next US House steps uncertain
The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee canceled its markup of the proposed American Privacy Rights Act mere minutes before members were set to begin their work. Disagreements about the House Republican approach to the bill paired with a slew of fresh stakeholder opposition forced the surprise setback for the bill and the committee seeking to finally pass comprehensive federal privacy legislation.
Podcast: A discussion on privacy litigation trends in the US
With the proliferation of comprehensive U.S. state privacy laws in recent years, there has been an understandable focus by privacy professionals on this growing patchwork. But privacy litigation is also on the rise and the plaintiff's bar has explored some novel theories, particularly around the use of online tracking technologies. Greenberg Traurig Shareholder Darren Abernethy is familiar with these recent litigation trends involving theories related to pen registers, chatbots, Meta pixels and more.
IAPP Academic Spotlight: University of Auckland graduates first students with Master of Information Governance
Established three years ago, the University of Auckland graduated its first class of students who obtained a Master of Information Governance degree. IAPP Associate Editor Jennifer Bryant spoke with several graduating students and professors from the program for the latest installment of the IAPP Academic Spotlight series.Full story
What we can learn from the FTC's AI approach
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's recent ruling on Rite Aid's biometric data collection practices should be a wake-up call for other companies in designing their AI governance schemes, Luminos.Law's Blair Victoria Robinson, Ellie Graeden, Ekene Chuks-Okeke, CIPP/E, and Brenda Leong, AIGP, CIPP/US, write.
AEPD, EDPS publish report on processing neurodata
Spain's data protection authority, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, and the European Data Protection Supervisor issued a joint report analyzing the challenges of processing neurodata and risks it poses to individuals' freedom.