The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia announced they are investigating background check company Certn.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner filed civil penalty charges to Federal Court of Australia against Medibank related to its 2022 data breach.
The IAPP Research and Insights team and FTI Consulting released the "AI Governance in Practice Report 2024." The report aims to inform the growing ranks of artificial intelligence governance professionals of the challenges businesses face as they build their governance program for using the technology.
Google Chief Privacy Officer Keith Enright, CIPP/G, CIPP/US, and Head of Competition Law Matthew Bye are leaving the company and will not be replaced as Google restructures its privacy and legal departments, Forbes reports. Google Spokesperson Jennifer Crider said the changes will "increase the number of people working on regulatory compliance across the company."Full story
New York state lawmakers and Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y., are moving toward a legislative agreement on a children's privacy bill that could disable the use of social media algorithms and promote parental controls for youth users, CNN reports. Hochul said children "should not be bombarded with these feeds that can be sorted a different way and not in a way that is so negative for them."Full story
Data privacy software provider LOKKER released its verification tool that allows businesses to check the efficiency of their consent banner options. The tool aims to prevent unapproved collection of consumer data and ensure businesses remain compliant with privacy laws.Full story
The IAPP AI Governance Global 2024 kicked off with Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith and Shannon Vallor, a professor of ethics of data and artificial intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, discussing AI's future through the lens of technologies of the past. IAPP Staff Writer Caitlin Andrews reports on their remarks covering caution and optimism around AI's potential.Full story
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the California Privacy Protection Agency are not aligned on the age-verification components of a draft bill that would increase data privacy protections for minors, Bloomberg reports. The CPPA does not approve of the age-verification provisions of Assembly Bill 1949, which would modify the California Consumer Privacy Act to require business to obtain valid consent from minors before selling or sharing their data.
Luxembourg's National Commission for Data Protection launched a learning tool to help small- and medium-sized businesses with their data protection practices in collaboration with the Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity and the National Cybersecurity Competence Center.
Google published a policy paper titled "Generative AI and Privacy," which calls for artificial intelligence models to be built using privacy-by-design techniques. The paper addresses topics such as data minimization when training models with large datasets in the training and development phases while also creating user-facing applications.