IAPP European Operations Coordinator Laura Pliauškaitė analyzed the role of a variety of stakeholders identified within the EU Artificial Intelligence Act. The map outlines stakeholders' structure and responsibilities during the act's implementation. Full story
The U.K. House of Lords will open the report stage of the proposed Data Protection and Digital Information Bill 10 June. During the report stage, any member of the House of Lords may offer additional amendments to the proposed legislation and reprinted with approved amendments prior to a third reading of the legislation by the same legislative body.Full story
The European Commission opened an investigation into Meta regarding alleged insufficient protections for minors online under the EU Digital Services Act. The Commission claimed compliance concerns related to age verification systems used by Instagram and Facebook, and their algorithms may stimulate addictive behavior among children, creating a so-called "rabbit hole" effect.Full story
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said the Department of Commerce plans to take action against Chinese-made connected vehicles due to privacy risks, Reuters reports. Raimondo said the vehicles' internal software knows "where the driver goes, what the driving patterns are, what you're saying in your car. It's a lot of data around U.S.
France's data protection authority, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés, released guidance on public Wi-Fi obligations. The guidance details the amount of time internet users' data can be stored and the safeguards needed to ensure public Wi-Fi complies with data protection standards.Full story
Digital rights advocates are urging the U.S. government to declassify documents showing the breadth of surveillance powers under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Wired reports. The groups worry language in the most recent renewal of the law could overly expand the scope of surveillance in an attempt to target data centers.Full story
Sweden's data protection authority, the Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten, said in a legal opinion it will begin conducting investigations into search services involved in personal data violation complaints.
Hong Kong's Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data is urging cloud platform providers to make sure passwords and access security are valid and sufficient after three institutions suffered data breaches of content stored on ArcGIS Online. The agency is investigating how the breaches occurred, which, it said, stemmed from a user being able to access the data without using the designated login interfaces.Full story
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed in a 7-2 decision to uphold the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding structure, The Washington Post reports. The CFPB's funding process was challenged for claims the system "violated the Constitution's command requiring congressional appropriation of money."Full story
A U.S. Senate working group released its roadmap proposal for addressing artificial intelligence after months of stakeholder dialogue. While it largely calls for leveraging of existing laws, the 31-page Senate document indicates certain mechanisms, like a federal privacy law, could go a long way toward addressing some key AI concerns. IAPP Staff Writer Caitlin Andrews details the highlights from the roadmap.Full story