Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Privacy and Data Policy Fellow Jennifer King was appointed to the California Children's Data Protection Working Group, created by the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act. The California Privacy Protection Agency Board, which has one appointment to the working group, approved King's appointment.
U.S. Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, introduced a bill seeking to improve access to cybersecurity tools and resources for small businesses. The Small Business Cyber Resiliency Act would establish a Central Small Business Cybersecurity Unit at the Small Business Administration, enhance cybersecurity resources and training for small businesses, and improve cybersecurity information sharing between federal agencies. Full story
Israel's Privacy Protection Authority published public comment draft guidelines on the role of board of directors' in fulfilling privacy protection obligations. The PPA said the guidance "applies to companies whose processing of personal information is at the core of their activity and to companies whose activity creates an increased risk to privacy." The public comment deadline is 22 Oct.Full story
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Senior District Judge William Orrick ruled a class-action lawsuit claiming Meta Platforms violated U.S. wiretap law and California privacy law could move forward, Reuters reports. The lawsuit claims the privacy of patients treated by hospitals and medical providers using Meta's pixel tracking tool was violated.
The New York Times reports engineers at Google and Facebook created tools several years ago that they claim could recognize and name any face, but have yet to release them.
The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework received the first of what is expected to be multiple legal challenges in the EU court system. IAPP Research and Insights Director Joe Jones unpacks two potential legal paths for these challenges, including the one pursued by French Member of European Parliament Philippe Latombe in his filing to the EU General Court.Full story
IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, offers his take on the latest privacy developments in the nation's capital and around the U.S., including a primer on how the U.S. Senate plans to tackle potential artificial intelligence regulations as lawmakers return from their summer recess.Full story
A view from Brussels: EU privacy policy agenda cranking along
U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., plan to introduce a "sweeping framework to regulate artificial intelligence," The New York Times reports. The lawmakers plan to unveil a series of bills during their upcoming hearing 12 Sept.
The U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Anna Gomez as commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission, The Washington Post reports. Lawmakers voted 55-43 in favor of Gomez, who will give Democrats the majority at the agency after more than two years of a partisan split and differences over prior nominees.
Google announced APIs for its Privacy Sandbox are now "generally available" for users as a default feature, The Verge reports. The feature, which is the company's privacy-preserving solution for phasing out third-party cookies, allows Chrome developers to replace cookies with APIs. However, Google said 3% of Chrome users will still use a browser with embedded cookies for "A/B tests" to be conducted.Full story