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IAB Tech Lab launches standards for data clean rooms

The IAB Tech Lab released its Data Clean Room Standards portfolio. The first-of-their-kind guidance and resources aim to help "streamline audience activation by enabling interoperability between (clean room) vendors." The IAB also offered "a primer for clean rooms containing definitions, concepts, and a roadmap of future clean room proposals and initiatives" while presenting the new standards at its Building For Privacy Series. The new standards will be open for public comment through April 17.

A view from Brussels: The latest on the Data Act

The proposed Data Act is slowly making its way through the legislative process among EU institutions. European Parliament’s Industry, Research and Energy Committee recently adopted its draft report on the proposed legislation, which seeks harmonized rules on fair access to and use of data to increase the growth and innovation potential. IAPP Managing Director, Europe, Isabelle Roccia shares what to expect next in the process.Full Story

MEPs discuss Greece's wiretapping scandal

Members of European Parliament discussed an unfolding wiretapping scandal in Greece Feb. 15, The Brussels Times reports. The cellphone belonging to MEP Nikos Androulakis, a member of an opposition party PASOK, in his home country, recently discovered spyware on his device “during a routine cybersecurity check” by IT Services in Brussels. In Greece, the ruling New Democracy claimed the surveillance of opposition politicians, journalists and other civic leaders was lawful.

'Old' vulnerabilities accounted for majority of ransomware activity monitored in 2022

Older IT vulnerabilities are being attributed as a major source of ransomware attacks, TechTarget reports, citing a joint report produced by four security vendors. The report titled “Ransomware Spotlight Report 2023” is the work of firms Cyber Security Works, Cyware, Ivanti and Securin, which combined their ransomware research work from the year prior.

Australian privacy law reform takes step forward

The Australian Attorney-General's Department released its highly anticipated review of the Privacy Act Thursday, a significant step in the reform of the nation's privacy law. The Privacy Act Review Report includes 116 recommendations based on 30 "key themes and proposals" from stakeholders during the course of the last two years. The potential reforms cover a wide range of issues, and the proposals are open for comment until March 31.