The House of Commons of Canada's Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics convened a hearing on social media privacy practices, IT Business Canada reports. The committee explored issues around potential data harvesting by social media companies while noting platforms should be transparent with data researchers.Full story
Consulting firm Accenture removed passwords for employees, instead opting for PIN and biometric-based logins, Axios reports. Accenture started password-free logins in 2020 with the aim of limiting cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The shift has drawn more than 600,000 employees to abandon passwords. Full story
During California's busiest legislative session since 2007, Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., signed nine privacy-related pieces of legislation into law, including the Delete Act and a Confidentiality of Medical Information Act amendment to increase protections for reproductive health data.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada published a blog on the future of data protection using encryption with quantum computing development. The OPC emphasized the importance of protecting sensitive data using encryption methods, while noting post-quantum cryptography methods could protect data and prove difficult for quantum computers to solve.Full story
As part of a 2022 plan made with the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, Google will depreciate third-party cookies from its Chrome browser starting in January 2024, MediaPost reports. The move is meant to protect consumer privacy by reducing cross-site tracking. There will be workarounds for other browsers while the transition takes place.Full story
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied Meta's request to have the court take over its privacy dispute with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Reuters reports. The court ruled the FTC can limit how much money Meta makes off advertising to users under 18 as part of a settlement over children's online privacy.Full story
Two European Parliament committees adopted a common position on the European Health Data Space. The law aims to provide patients with a right of access to their personal health data across all member states' respective health care systems, with each state creating a national health data access service. A full Parliament vote is expected in December.Full story
Privacy rights group NYOB brought a complaint against Meta to Austria's Data Protection Authority, alleging its ad-free subscription model forces people to pay a fee for privacy, Reuters reports. Meta defended the model for EU Facebook and Instagram users, noting its compliance with EU rules and similar cost to other platform subscriptions.
France's data protection authority, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés, published recommendations for application programming interface data sharing. The guidance states data holders must ensure the security of any data shared using API, while eliminating risks associated with sharing sensitive data.Full story
With the draft automated decision-making regulations out for consumption, the California Privacy Protection Agency is allowing stakeholders the opportunity to explore and understand the proposed rules ahead of a formal rulemaking process. IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, parsed through the 17-page proposal for a deeper look into what may catch AI governance and privacy professionals' eyes.Full story