The European Commission announced a public consultation toward the drafting of an implementing regulation for the Digital Markets Act. The draft regulation pertains to obligations and procedures under Article 46 of the DMA. The commission is seeking comment on notifications and submissions for commission requests under the law, rules for opening DMA proceedings and timeframes for proceedings. The comment deadline is Jan.
The provision in India’s proposed Digital Personal Data Protection Bill allowing transborder data flows to “certain notified countries” could “reinvigorate digital trade” between India, the EU and the U.S., Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center nonresident fellow Anand Raghuraman writes. India’s prior insistence on data localization requirements was part of the reason why it refused to sign onto the G-20 Osaka Track declaration and did not agree to the data-sharing pillar of the U.S.-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework.
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office created design tests to help designers assess whether products or services likely to be accessed by children comply with the Children's Code.
U.S. National Cyber Director Chris Inglis will visit Japan later in December, CyberScoop reports. He is expected to “improve cybersecurity cooperation with a key ally” during heightened tensions between China and the U.S. Inglis is also anticipated to address the threats of Chinese and North Korean hackers with his Japanese counterparts. Japan suffered a series of cyberattacks last year, which led to the leak of more than 70,000 emails from government agencies.
The U.K. released a voluntary code of practice to improve security and privacy requirements on applications and app stores. New measures include improved reporting of software vulnerabilities and enhanced transparency around privacy and security for app users. "Today we are taking steps to get app stores and developers to keep customers even safer in the online world," Minister of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Julia Lopez said.
The new compromise text of the EU Data Act is being circulated, as the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union failed to “broker a common position” before a ministerial meeting Dec. 6, Euractiv reports. The new text addresses “outstanding issues,” including requirements for interoperability between “cloud providers of in-parallel services,” user egress fees and types of data users can request from cloud providers storing data generated by Internet of Things devices. It will be discussed during the Dec.
If next year’s congressional leaders want to act on a federal privacy law, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act is a place to start, The Washington Post Editorial Board writes.
IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, breaks down the latest happenings in the nation’s capital, including attention around the American Data Privacy and Protection Act. The proposal was featured on ABC News Live with U.S. Reps. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., and Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., extolling its virtues and endorsed by The Washington Post editorial board.
Morocco’s National Commission for the Control and the Protection of Personal Data launched a platform dedicated to privacy protections and personal data processing in Morocco and Africa. The “Koun3labal” platform aims to make children, adolescents, women, parents, guardians and teachers aware of digital privacy opportunities, dangers and risks, as well as rights and remedies.