In this week’s Global News Roundup, Turkey’s data protection authority fined TikTok 1.75 million liralar. U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner Christine Wilson announced she will resign at the end of the month. Reforms to the Australian Privacy Act are poised to have significant impacts on small and medium-sized businesses. And new compromise texts of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act were circulated by its co-rapporteurs. (IAPP member exclusive.) Full Story
Age verification and the best privacy-preserving approach are top of mind for social and streaming platforms, Axios reports. The push focuses on increasing children's online safety while attempting to get ahead of existing and proposed regulatory frameworks requiring age verification processes. The U.K.
Politico reports ChatGPT's increased use and popularity is causing strain in EU negotiations for the proposed Artificial Intelligence Act. The sudden rise of generative AI systems spurred EU institutions to reconsider their positions on proposed legislation, but European Parliament remains undecided on how to move forward. Parliament co-rapporteurs Brando Benifei and Dragoș Tudorache received pushback regarding a proposal to characterize systems like ChatGPT as high risk due to their potential to disperse disinformation at mass.
Following the death of privacy and technology expert Peter Eckersley in September 2022, artificial intelligence entrepreneur Deger Turan signed on to lead the AI Objectives Institute, the organization Eckersley hoped would "course-correct AI's evolution to safeguard the future of humanity," Wired reports.
Former Facebook marketing executives Graham Mudd and Brad Smallwood launched Anonym, a startup intended to allow digital advertisers to mine advertisements for marketing data while upholding user privacy, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Classes of plaintiffs have begun targeting businesses relying on voice authentication technology, alleging the practice violates a section of the California Invasion of Privacy Act, Bloomberg reports. The class-action lawsuits generally allege companies are recording customers and analyzing their “voiceprints” without obtaining written consent.
Around the world, leading neuroscientists, neuroethicists, privacy advocates and legal minds are taking a greater interest in brain data, its potential, as well as its risks. However, there is a wide spectrum of thought among researchers and stakeholders regarding the boundaries of the ethical, medical and scientific development of neurotechnology as companies begin to adapt it for commercial applications.
U.S. Congress and many state legislatures are exploring enhanced children's privacy and online safety standards this year. IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, dives into a recently passed children's social media bill in Utah that creates a first-of-its-kind parental oversight provision allowing parents access to their child's communications on a given platform.Full Story
Conflicting reports emerged over Indian Parliament's Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology's approval of the proposed Digital Personal Data Protection Bill. According to the Business Standard, Indian Minister for Railways, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said the bill was "given a big thumbs-up" by the committee in its review prior to full Parliament consideration.