The U.S. Federal Trade Commission offered guidance on privacy protections with Internet-of-Things devices in the wake of recent enforcement actions against Amazon's Alexa and Ring. The guidance note explains how the FTC will hold companies accountable for improper data use toward algorithms in addition to noting its attention to biometric and children's matters that led to the actions against Amazon.
Some U.S. Senate Democrats are calling for reforms to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, The Hill reports.
BBB National Programs' Digital Advertising Accountability Program announced Ticketmaster agreed to bring its website into compliance with the Digital Advertising Alliance's Self-Regulatory Principles. Following a consumer complaint, DAAP found Ticketmaster's website did not comply with the DAA's Transparency Principle.
In an op-ed for The South China Morning Post, China News Editor Josephine Ma writes about the need to balance convenience and privacy with technological developments, like biometric payment methods. "Convenience should not be the only goal of technological advancement. Privacy is no less important in the equation," she said.Full story
State auditors in Utah expressed concerns to a legislative committee regarding how the state Office of Vital Records and Statistics processes birth registration information, Fox 13 Salt Lake City reports. The agency offers new mothers a voluntary 43-question worksheet with their newborn's personal health information that is then shared with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Auditors raised the issue that sharing the health data obtained from the worksheets with the CDC was not disclosed transparently with mothers.
Sweden's data protection authority, the Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten, fined Spotify SEK58 million for alleged EU General Data Protection Regulation violations related to transparency.
The Wall Street Journal reports the European Commission plans to file an antitrust complaint aimed at breaking up Google's advertising technology business. The complaint will call for Google to sell off some of its adtech tools, some of which are driven by data collection and profiling that help generate targeted advertising.
With the steady increase in lawsuits focusing on whether businesses lawfully collect and use personal data, the insurance industry has experienced a barrage of claims. In turn, Thompson Hine Partner Steven Stransky, CIPP/G, CIPP/US, and Oswald Companies' Lacy Rex write insurance carriers are scrutinizing companies' data security practices and assessing the data they collect.
Google's generative artificial intelligence tool Bard will not debut in the EU until the company satisfies privacy concerns raised by Ireland's Data Protection Commission, Politico reports. Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle said the regulator "had not had any detailed briefing nor sight of a data protection impact assessment" from Google ahead of Bard's anticipated rollout.
Officials from U.S. intelligence agencies backed reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ahead of a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing Tuesday.