The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration filed a request for comments on how companies' data practices may negatively affect marginalized or underserved communities. Comments will go toward an NTIA report that aims to "point to how current resources can be better deployed — and provide a guide for new privacy proposals." The agency added the initiative aims to support U.S.
Euractiv reports on Germany's submission to the Council of the European Union's negotiations on the proposed Data Act.
Australia Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said a "whole range" of "modernisations" will be considered within the next iteration of the Privacy Act, the Guardian reports.
The World Economic Forum released a paper titled "Data Free Flow with Trust: Overcoming Barriers to Cross-Border Data Flows." The organization stated it highlights the importance of global data flows and "urges global leaders in the public and private sectors to take collective action to work towards a shared understanding" of data flows with a view toward facilitating "trust-based data exchanges — through policy mechanisms and concrete tools for businesses."
Brazil’s data protection authority, the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, released its Monitoring and Execution Balance Sheet of the Regulatory Agenda for the 2021-2022 biennium. The balance sheet provides an update of the ANPD’s progress toward various projects as required by law.
The New York Times reports on major changes at Big Tech companies sparked by Dutch privacy regulators' use of the EU General Data Protection Regulation. "They have a centralized approach that leads to the ability to have scalable solutions," Microsoft's Chief Privacy Officer Julie Brill said.
Spain’s data protection authority, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, approved modifying the Auto Control Code of Conduct “Data processing in advertising activity.” A key provision of the new code of conduct provides a means of expediting the resolution of complaints from citizens regarding data protection and advertising through “a procedure mediation.”
The uptick in mobile health application and wearable use by U.S. consumers is generating a renewed interest in health data privacy protection. IAPP Westin Research Fellows Anokhy Desai, CIPP/US, CIPT, and Amy Olivero produced an infographic with a nonexhaustive list of third-party resources, frameworks and guidance organizations can refer to when updating protections for products and services that collect, use or sell digital health data.
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology will publish the first iteration of its Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework Jan. 26. The NIST described the voluntary standard as aiming to "improve the ability to incorporate trustworthiness considerations into the design, development, use, and evaluation" of AI offerings. A companion AI playbook containing suggested actions, references and documentation guidance is attached to the framework.