California Attorney General Rob Bonta asked the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to reject an injunction meant to keep the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act from going into effect.
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology will hold a "closed-door" meeting with technology industry stakeholders 19 Dec. as part of the consultation process for developing data protection rules under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, The Indian Express reports.
ECIJA Senior Associate Daniel Rodriguez Maffioli discusses the status of artificial intelligence legislation across Latin America and how the socioeconomic, educational and political challenges across the region influence that work. He notes many countries draw inspiration from the EU's AI Act, but certain elements of that proposal may need to be adapted for Latin America's own landscape. Full story
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released a draft plan of how local governments and businesses should respond when they experience a data security incident, Reuters reports. The proposal includes a four-tiered system with differing levels of action depending on the severity of the attack.Full story
Google announced its Chrome browser will begin testing a feature to block third-party cookies and limit cross-site tracking 4 Jan. 2024, MediaPost reports. Chrome users will have the option to enable third-party cookies for 90 days if there are issues with its Tracking Protection initiative in the browser. The full cookie phaseout is planned for the second half of 2024. Full story
EU member states want to extend through 2027 interim rules on child sexual abuse material that allow companies to detect and report harmful content, Euractiv reports.
Bird & Bird Associate Dan Fara, CIPP/E, CIPM, and Partner James Moss take a long-view look at the approach by the European Data Protection Board and the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office to administrative fines as the latter looks to develop a method to calculate penalties. The two note the ICO's draft guidelines mirror certain elements of the EDPB's fine-calculating system, allowing for some synergy between the entities.Full story
When major enforcement provisions of Quebec’s Law 25 went into effect in September, privacy professionals in the province and across Canada faced a whole slew of compliance concerns. To help ease stresses, data mapping platform Data Sentinel and data privacy management platform Denodo partnered to release a comprehensive Law 25 compliance solution.
The IAPP announced its AI Governance Global 2024 will take place 4-5 June 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. The conference will shift to Europe in 2024 on the heels of potential finalization of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act in the lead-up to the event. In preparation, the IAPP seeks proposals for breakout sessions covering the wide range of issues around AI development, use and regulatory compliance. The deadline to submit AIGG proposals is 21 Jan. 2024.
If artificial intelligence models are trained on tranches of "bad" or illegally obtained data, it is difficult for developers to wind them back to a state where a given model is trained solely on "good" datasets, IAPP Research and Insights Analyst Brandon Lalonde writes. Lalonde explored techniques for the concept of "model disgorgement," which requires AI developers to remove bad data that can impact the legality of a model.Full story