Belgium's data protection authority, the APD, is focusing on the role of data protection officers as a 2023 priority and is participating in the European Data Protection Board's coordinated enforcement action. The APD said it mailed a survey to DPOs that explores tasks within their organization, workflow methods, expectations and more. Results will be aggregated in a public report.
At the IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023, practitioners, privacy advocates and regulators, exchanged ideas to better understand artificial intelligence’s technological potentials, best practices for governance, privacy risks and possible iterations of future government regulation. As the EU AI Act moves closer to passage and the U.S.
Ireland's Department of Rural and Community Development estimates 24,000 people use remote-working hubs daily, prompting warnings employers should be proactive, including maintaining up-to-date privacy policies, the Irish Examiner reports.
Members of the Maine Legislature reintroduced a biometric information privacy bill, similar to Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, StateScoop reports. As proposed, Maine's bill would "prohibit private entities from selling (biometric) information" and require written consent from an individual before another entity can acquire that person's biometric data.
The U.K. government's COVID-19 contact-tracing apps were a successful endeavor in ensuring citizens' privacy during a crisis, Information Commissioner’s Office Director of Regulatory Assurance Ian Hulme wrote in a blog post. Apps used across the U.K.
The U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce will hold a hearing 27 April focused on federal privacy legislation.
The European Data Protection Board will unveil candidates to assume board chair and deputy chairs at its 26 April plenary meeting. The board began circulating information in February on the election process for successors to EDPB Chair Andrea Jelinek and Deputy Chairs Ventsislav Karadjov and Aleid Wolfsen. Each position is a five-year renewable term.