The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada opened an investigation into the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation after employees discovered sensitive personal information was added to their personnel files, the National Post reports. Employees who participated in a "voluntary, confidential" diversity survey found that data collected from the survey such as sexual orientation and religious affiliation was added to their employment records.
Amendments to Japan's Telecommunications Business Act, including the External Data Transmission Rule, take force June 16. This new transmission rule will apply to certain businesses offering online services and may require companies to update existing policies or establish new ones.
Iowa is on the verge of becoming the sixth U.S. state to pass comprehensive privacy legislation. Both chambers of the Iowa Legislature unanimously voted to approve Senate File 262, including final approval from the Iowa House on a 97-0 vote Wednesday, and potential enactment could come shortly after transmission to the governor. SF 262 falls into the patchwork of existing state privacy legislation, carrying notable similarities and differences.
Interoperability among existing U.S. comprehensive state privacy legislation is growing, but key differences remain between each of the five laws. IAPP Westin Research Fellow Anokhy Desai, CIPP/US, CIPT, analyzed laws in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah and Virginia, comparing and contrasting relevant terms, applicability, exemptions, consumer rights, business obligations and enforcement duties for each of the five passed laws to date.
In a joint statement, U.S. Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, urged reform of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's Section 702.
Dropbox helps people store, organize and share their cloud content and all its workflows, with more than 700 million registered users across 180 countries, but for Senior Director of Privacy Sarah Pipes, CIPP/US, CIPT, FIP, it "really feels like home." Pipes chats with IAPP Staff Writer Jennifer Bryant about the alignment in privacy values she discovered at Dropbox, the joy she found in management and more.Full Story
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened an inquiry into data brokers.
Recently, major companies have been winning legal appeals of enforcement decisions rendered by several EU member state data protection authorities, the Wall Street Journal reports. Courts in Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K. ruled in favor of companies, such as Amazon and Experian to overturn multimillion-euro fines, affirming their privacy practices were in keeping with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. In one such ruling, a U.K. court ruled in favor of Experian, which appealed a U.K.
Members of U.S. Congress had personally identifiable information posted on a hacker forum following the data breach of Washington, D.C., health insurance marketplace DC Health Link, NBC News reports. The stolen data reportedly contains members' health plan information and other sensitive information.