Meta asked the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., to stop the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's move to expand a 2020 settlement that would ban the company from monetizing data of users under age 18, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Brazil's National Data Protection Authority announced it opened investigations into Meta's WhatsApp and TikTok. It noted the WhatsApp investigation involves "verification of compliance with the processing of personal data" regarding the platform's sharing of data with its parent company.
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office announced updates to its Children's Code guidance concerning education technology providers and services. The updates aim to clarify when an edtech provider or product falls within the scope of the Children's Code.
TikTok requested the lawsuits accusing the platform of accessing user data through third-party websites be heard in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Axios reports. Co-lead of Dykema's Biometric Information Privacy Act practice team Melanie Chico, who specializes in Illinois privacy laws, said TikTok is asking the court if the claims are covered under a USD92 million settlement approved in 2022. Full Story
California SB 362, the Delete Act, passed out of the Senate and moved to cross-chamber consideration. The bill brings data broker requirements and limitations, including broker registration with the California Privacy Protection Agency and a streamlined broker deletion request mechanism facilitated by the agency. "The Delete Act is based on a very simple premise: Every Californian should be able to control who has access to their personal information and what they can do with it," state Sen. Josh Becker, D-Calif., said.
The IAPP is seeking responses for the "2023 Privacy Governance Survey" sponsored by EY. The survey examines various aspects of privacy and data protection operations, such as the organizational structure of the privacy function, privacy spending and factors that influence decisions on data use.
Microsoft announced it updated the cookie policy for its Bing search engine following a reprimand by France's data protection authority, the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes, GovInfoSecurity reports. In December 2022, the CNIL fined Microsoft 60 million euros "for misleading cookie policies that it says made it difficult for Bing users to decline data collection." Full Story
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada's Special Report to Parliament on several pandemic-related investigations was tabled in Parliament.
South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission announced a research group aimed at examining the impacts of biometric information collection and use. The group was created in the wake of recent developments with artificial intelligence-powered technologies that incorporate biometrics.