The European Commission announced the opening of the European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency. The oversight group will perform assessments on algorithms used by organizations characterized as "Very Large Online Platforms" and/or "Very Large Online Search Engines" under the Digital Services Act. ECAT members include representatives from EU institutions, academia, civil society and industry.
The U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration announced the U.K. applied to be an associate in the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules Forum. The U.K. application marks the first potential addition to the forum since its creation in 2022.
As a 5-year-old in Saudi Arabia, Sue Khan, CIPP/E, observed patients of her mom's medical practice, especially women seeking treatment without understanding their bodies. The experience taught Khan, now vice president and data protection officer at Flo Health, the importance of clear communication and education for women's health and wellbeing. It also sparked her interest in health care and health technology.
BBB National Programs announced work on a new Digital Health Privacy Program for companies collecting and using consumer health data. The accountability program is still in development as BBB builds off the Executives for Health Innovation's Consumer Privacy Framework for Health Data.
The Future of Privacy Forum published an overview of Tanzania's Personal Information Protection Act, 2022. Tanzania is the "35th country in Africa to enact a standalone data protection law and effectively extends data protection safeguards to more than 63 million people," Policy Analyst Mercy King'Ori and Policy Counsel for Global Privacy Katerina Demetzou write.
Vietnam's government published a Decree on Protection of Personal Data, effective 1 July. The decree implements principles around data collection, processing and storage. Under the decree, organizations are required to notify the Ministry of Public Security within 72 hours of detecting a violation. Full Story
MediaPost reports Google's work toward a third-party cookie deprecation recently employed artificial intelligence to build a "privacy-preserved" ad-targeting model. In the first quarter, Google Ads ran tests on how interest-based audience solutions that rely on AI react with privacy-preserving signals. Preliminary results showed positive signs of balance between effective advertising and maintaining privacy.
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office reprimanded Surrey and Sussex police for using an app that recorded and automatically saved more than 200,000 phone calls without individuals' knowledge.
Digital tracking pixels and similar technologies are posing an increasing cybersecurity risk, Corvus Insurance Senior Vice President of Risk and Response Lauren Winchester writes in InfoSecurity Magazine. Law firms, regulators and insurers are paying heightened attention to the tracking pixels' vulnerabilities when they assess a company's risk.
Despite concerns by U.S. policymakers over the security of TikTok users’ data, Chinese law allows for redress for individual’s whose privacy has been violated, New York University U.S.-Asia Law Institute Research Scholar Chi Yin and Nankai University School of Law associate professor Tonghui Zhu write in the South China Morning Post. The authors pointed to two instances where TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance "inappropriately" obtained data belonging to journalists.