Florida lawmakers passed Senate Bill 262, legislation that would give consumers access to information collected about them by companies and the right to have some data deleted, MediaPost reports. If signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., it would also require companies to allow consumers to opt out of targeted ads based on nonpseudonymous data, but does not require opt-outs for targeted ads based on pseudonymous data.
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
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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.