With Halloween just around the corner, IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, ponders postmortem privacy. “In a world where my whole life is digitized, including my most intimate secrets, what happens to my autonomy and dignity if my rights vanish at death?” he asks. Zweifel-Keegan also looks at privacy takeaways from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s latest data security case.Full Story
The Digital Services Act was published in the Official Journal of the European Union Oct. 27. The DSA, which harmonizes conditions for the provision of intermediary services and increases transparency requirements for online intermediaries, will enter into force Nov. 16.
The U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision raised the stakes for privacy protections of health data in the country. By the end of the year, digital tools related to women’s health are expected to make up a $51.6 billion global market, IAPP Westin Research Fellow Amy Olivero writes.
The Baden-Württemberg State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Stefan Brink said “legal ambiguity" remains in U.S. President Joe Biden’s executive order to reestablish the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Brink said the ambiguities include questions of the ability of the U.S. to implement requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation by executive order, organizational compliance with an executive order and how the order interplays with other U.S.
In August, Argentina's Agency of Access to Public Information, the data protection authority of the Argentina Personal Data Protection Law, initiated the process aimed at reforming the personal data protection regime.
The Global Privacy Assembly voted to admit the California Privacy Protection Agency as a full voting member during the 44th annual Global Privacy Assembly, “A Matter of Balance: Privacy in The Era of Rapid Technological Advancement” in Istanbul, Turkey. With the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the CPPA is the second voting member of the GPA — a global forum of more than 130 data protection and privacy authorities — from the United States.Full Story
Credit rating agencies are beginning to account more for the level of cybersecurity organizations and governments employ to determine their creditworthiness, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The European Commission’s proposal to fight "child sexual abuse materials" introduced last May has spurred controversy as it touches upon the delicate issue of private interpersonal communications and might affect end-to-end encryption. Journalist Luca Bertuzzi discusses reactions to the proposal and the current state of play, its impact on end-to-end encryption, and the legislative process.
In its quarterly report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Meta said it anticipates the Irish Data Protection Commission's decision on its EU-U.S. data transfers in early 2023. The company also noted uncertainty given the presidential executive order implementing the EU-U.S.