Apple will make changes to its operating system and app store to comply with the EU Digital Markets Act, The Wall Street Journal reports. Apple will make changes by the DMA's March compliance deadline, including app store updates focused on alternative payment methods and app notarization.Full story
The California Privacy Protection Agency is hiring for its Honors Privacy Fellow position. Candidates must apply before the 1 March deadline for the graduate legal fellowship that focuses on privacy law and policy.Full story
The U.S. National Security Agency sometimes buys potentially sensitive internet logs from data brokers to gain insight into domestic activities, The New York Times reports. The practice, seemingly used to circumvent a court order, was criticized in a letter to the agency by U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., saying it supported an industry which undermines a person's right to privacy.Full story
Data protection authorities from Netherlands, Norway and the state of Hamburg, Germany, are requesting the European Data Protection Board to take a formal position on the so-called "pay or OK" targeted advertising model. Under Meta's new structure, EU users would either have to allow targeted advertising or pay to opt-out.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission asked five companies to provide information on recent investments with generative artificial intelligence companies, a sign the agency is concerned about competition in the industry. The orders were sent to Alphabet, Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft and OpenAI.
This week marked one of the final steps toward formal adoption of the Cyber Resilience Act. IAPP Managing Director, Europe, Isabelle Roccia, CIPP/E, outlines next steps and key obligations of the CRA. Once the act is formally adopted and published to the Official Journal of the European Union in coming weeks, manufacturers, importers and distributors of hardware and software products will have 36 months to comply.
Following the release of the full EU Artificial Intelligence Act text, IAPP AI Governance Center Managing Director Ashley Casovan will host a LinkedIn Live 29 Jan. exploring the proposed regulation's fine details after the political agreement struck last month.
Politico reports Snap is one of the first major social media platforms to support the U.S. Kids Online Safety Act, which could put pressure on others to shift their stances as well. The bill would require platforms to block harmful content from children's feeds and set a federal standard in an area where 23 states have passed legislation.Full story
IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, offers his take on the latest privacy and artificial intelligence governance developments in the nation's capital and around the U.S. This week he imagines a world without the term "privacy" and how its meaning could still carry on and be disseminated around the world.Full story
South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission issued warnings to 15 businesses for noncompliance with the Personal Information Protection Act regarding closed-circuit television use. Full story