India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology will hold a consultation 20 Sept. with industry stakeholders on implementation of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, The Economic Times reports.
The European Data Protection Board will hold its regular plenary meeting 19 Sept. The board will discuss its joint opinion with the European Data Protection Supervisor on implementing procedural rules for the enforcement of the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
The U.K. government will announce an updated data transfer agreement with the U.S. as early as 21 Sept., Politico reports. The deal was previously alluded to in a broader U.K.-U.S. digital policy agreement announced in June. The U.K. government will need to apply secondary regulations before the agreement is finalized. Editor's note: IAPP Research and Insights Director Joe Jones analyzed the U.K.-U.S.
The petition to annul the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework filed by a French member of European Parliament has garnered support from members of Germany's Bundestag, Euractiv reports. "A legal review is not unexpected for me, since personal data from Europe do not enjoy the same level of protection in all aspects in the USA as in the EU," Free Democratic Party MP Maximilian Funke-Kaiser said.
The European Commission and China held a second "High-level Digital Dialogue" discussing issues including data regulation, artificial intelligence and cross-border flow of industrial data. The EU and China agreed to resume the China-EU Information and Communication Technologies Dialogue.
Saudi Arabia's Personal Data Protection Law was enacted 16 Sept., the Saudi Gazette reports.
The Netherlands' data protection authority, Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, is taking action over concerns about personal data collection by organizations using generative artificial intelligence, paying special attention to apps for young children. The AP asked a technology company to clarify its use of a chatbot in an app popular with children, and also asked ChatGPT developer OpenAI about its data handling practices when training the system.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission published staff analyses on potential children's harms associated with blurred advertising campaigns. The report is a result of the FTC's October 2022 workshop on children's safety in the advertising technology space.
The Associated Press reports Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita sued Indiana University Health and IU Healthcare Associates over an alleged Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act violation concerning abortion patient privacy. The attorney general claimed a physician at the hospital violated HIPAA when publicizing the hardships an Ohio teen endured to obtain an abortion over state lines in Indiana following the reversal of Roe v.