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More than 700 privacy professionals from over 40 countries responded to the IAPP-EY Annual Privacy Governance Report 2022, sharing details on the average privacy office in 2022. Research focused on governance and organizational structures, privacy strategy and planning, compensation and budget management, and performance metrics and monitoring. More than 30% of organizations reported prioritizing international transfer rules and privacy impact assessments and 66% reported their privacy strategy is aligned with their organization's overall corporate strategy.

Female health application Flo's "Anonymous Mode" feature, created with assistance from global law firm Dechert, enables the app's 48 million users to use its health services without personally identifiable information. In the gaming space, developer King's privacy notice, created with legal design agency Amurabi, is mirrored after its games to engage users in an interactive experience. For their unique privacy and data protection services, Dechert and King and Amurabi received the 2022 HPE-IAPP Privacy Innovation Awards, for the Americas and EMEA/APAC regions, respectively.

A potential loophole within the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act has been exposed, Biometric Update reports. In the recent federal court case, Powell v. DePaul University, an online student claimed the school defied BIPA by "using an online remote proctoring tool to capture, store, and disseminate his and other students’ facial geometry data” without consent. DePaul was granted dismissal after claiming it was a financial institution exempted from BIPA under Title V of the U.S.

Thousands of Apple and Google mobile applications were found to contain computer code developed by a Russian software company disguised as a U.S. company, Reuters reports. The apps, including some used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Army, were made by Pushwoosh. Upon contact by Reuters, the CDC removed seven of its public apps, while the Army removed an app in March after it was used by soldiers at a combat training base.