The heads of multiple encrypted chat apps, including WhatsApp and Signal, wrote a letter to the U.K. government claiming the proposed Online Safety Bill would “in effect outlaw end-to-end encryption,” the Guardian reports. In the letter, executives wrote, “the bill poses an unprecedented threat to the privacy, safety and security of every U.K.
USENIX, the advanced computing systems association, is seeking participants for its upcoming Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect 2023, 11-12 Sept. in Santa Clara, California. The conference will focus on "designing and building products and systems that enhance privacy and respect for both users and society." The submission deadline for participants is 2 May and presenters will be notified by 6 June.Full Story
Members of European Parliament plan to add provisions to the proposed Artificial Intelligence Act that will better address the generative AI boom, The Wall Street Journal reports. In a letter outlining their intentions, MEPs explained their desire to set a global blueprint for AI regulation to steer technologies "in a direction that is human centric, safe and trustworthy." Romanian MEP and AI Act co-rapporteur Dragoș Tudorache said unpublished amendments would address the potential for "more challenging future scenarios" AI's rapid growth could bring.
Standard contractual clauses remain a top international data transfer mechanism across the globe with at least 20 draft contract templates covering 71 countries. The IAPP Research and Insights team constructed an infographic to depict the specific jurisdictions that rely on SCCs. Future IAPP research will detail the implementation of global data transfer mechanisms, similarities and differences between them, and key takeaways for privacy professionals.Full Story
In this week's Global News Roundup, the European Data Protection Board published its binding decision in the case regarding legality of Meta's EU-U.S. data transfers brought by Ireland's Data Protection Commission. The European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs adopted its nonbinding rejection of the proposed EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. And in the U.S., Indiana is on the cusp of becoming the seventh state to enact comprehensive privacy legislation.
The European Data Protection Board published its 2022 activity report. The board outlined its undertakings and results from last year, including stakeholder guidance reviews. Also included in the report for the first time is a digest of EU General Data Protection Regulation one-stop-shop case examples.
The Montana House of Representatives voted 54-43 on final approval of a bill to ban TikTok across the state, The Wall Street Journal reports. The first-of-its-kind state ban on TikTok still requires the signature of Gov. Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., who previously banned the app from government-issued devices and state universities. If signed, the bill takes effect 1 Jan.
In an op-ed for The South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Ada Chung wrote the growing interplay between artificial intelligence and privacy should "be a signal for all stakeholders" to come together to create a "safe and healthy ecosystem." Chung discussed the use of personal data to power AI systems and how it "may not be collected fairly or on an informed basis" considering few disclosures from developers.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission published four guides for parents on children's data protection rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation. The guides outline the basics of children's data protection rights, when parental consent may be needed for processing children's data, advice on how parents can protect their children's data, and limits to exercising children's data protection rights.
Italy's data protection authority, the Garante, fined a digital marketing services company 300,000 euros for allegedly illegally processing users' personal data for marketing purposes.