The EU proposed "chat controls" regulation that would require encrypted messaging services to screen accounts for child abuse content may not be lawful, according to leaked legal documents obtained by the Guardian. The documents contain "internal EU legal advice" circulated among member states' diplomats that "raises significant doubts about the lawfulness of the regulation unveiled by the European Commission" last year.
Privacy Week 2023 is underway in New Zealand. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner is hosting a series of free webinars, most of which will be recorded and posted on the agency's YouTube channel. Remaining webinars feature topics including digital privacy, online dating, biometrics and artificial intelligence.Full Story
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board writes the U.S.
Axios reports the U.S. is lagging behind China in developing and enacting rules for generative artificial intelligence, as Chinese officials near completion on a second round of regulation.
In this week’s Global News Roundup, Australian Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus announced the restructuring of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. The European Commission set a 3 July deadline for gatekeepers to notify their core platform service. Indian citizens condemned a potential amendment to the Aadhaar Authentication. And, in the U.S., a bipartisan group of senators reintroduced the Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act 2.0. (IAPP member exclusive.) Full Story
U.K. ministers are being warned WhatsApp may shut down its services in the country if changes aren't made to the proposed Online Safety Bill, the Guardian reports.
In an op-ed for EU Law Live, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Senior Privacy Counsel Christopher Kuner explained the EU's data transfer regime "remains a work in progress" five years after the EU General Data Protection Regulation took effect. Kuner listed a range of GDPR-related factors posing challenges to EU transfers, including "institutional tensions," focus on formalized transfer mechanisms and discrepancies regarding cross-border enforcement.
Washington state's My Health My Data Act is being billed by many as the next Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
European Data Protection Board Chair Andrea Jelinek joined Euractiv's "The Tech Brief" podcast to discuss her tenure and overseeing enforcement of the EU General Data Protection Regulation since its establishment. Jelinek reviewed the work the board has done during her five-year term and the challenges that remain, including a unified approach to enforcement among data protection authorities.