The European Parliament adopted new procedural rules related to EU General Data Protection Regulation enforcement. The proposed rules aim to harmonize data flows among EU member states by increasing their respective data protection authorities' level of cooperation, improve dispute resolution mechanisms, and synchronize procedural rules and rights.
The future of artificial intelligence regulation is still being written, stakeholders told attendees of the IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2024. IAPP Staff Writer Caitlin Andrews chronicles the key issues and uncertainties companies and regulators face and how current and new policies will shape their path. Full story
U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., said TikTok owner ByteDance may have more time to divest the company under a Senate version of a bill requiring them to do so or face a ban, Reuters reports. The new deadline would put any potential ban into 2025.Full story
A procedural vote in the U.S. House to advance legislation to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act failed, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The European Parliament endorsed extending provisions within the e-Privacy Directive allowing websites to voluntarily look for child sexual abuse material. The extension runs through April 2026, but MEPs also voted to tighten reporting done by companies, citing inconsistency.Full story
An opinion from Court of Justice of the European Union Advocate General Priit Pikamäe alleged the German State Data Protection and Freedom of Information Commissioner of Land Hessen did not impose corrective measures after a citizen had his personal data reviewed by a local savings bank employee without his consent.
OpenAI, Google and Mistral released updates to their artificial intelligence models within hours of each other after Meta announced the upcoming release of the third version of its Llama AI model, the Guardian reports. Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun said companies need to focus on releasing "objective-driven" AI technology instead of flooding the market.
DuckDuckGo will launch a privacy tool that can ask websites to delete consumers' personal data from "people-search websites," Wired reports.
Spain's data protection authority, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, released its annual action report which showed a record-breaking number of complaints regarding unwanted advertising, video surveillance and other data protection violations.
Mastercard released information on privacy-enhancing technologies and shared the importance of using PETs to mitigate security risks in the financial industry. Mastercard said to continue the development of innovative data and privacy, regulators and organizations need to collaborate to increase the use of PETs.Full story