Meta filed a federal lawsuit against an analytics company for allegedly creating thousands of fake Facebook profiles to scrape user data, MediaPost reports. In its lawsuit filed in U.S.
The European Commission announced the NIS2 Directive, a modernized framework based on the EU Network and Information Security Directive is effective. The commission outlined how the directive "will strengthen the cybersecurity risk management requirements that companies are obliged to comply with." The regulation includes seamless incident reporting obligations with respect to the information being reported and the timeline for reporting.
As more details unfold within the Irish Data Protection Commission and European Data Protection Board’s published Meta decisions, the privacy community is grappling with complex and fundamental questions surrounding legal bases for data processing, transparency within privacy notices, uncertainty around EU General Data Protection Regulation compliance, and more.
The U.K. and U.S. governments jointly announced the results of the inaugural U.S.-U.K. Comprehensive Dialogue on Technology and Data. Following the agreement of its creation in 2021, the first annual meeting between relevant officials yielded goals to "finalize and implement a data bridge for U.S.-U.K. data flows" while collaborating to "facilitate global trusted data flows" through the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules Forum.
IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, breaks down the latest privacy happenings in the nation’s capital, including musings related to U.S. President Joe Biden's public call to Congress for federal privacy legislation and reining in Big Tech.Full Story
A view from Brussels: Predictions, Swedish EU presidency, CJEU decisions and more
IT World Canada reports the International Organization for Standardization will adopt ISO 31700 on privacy by design Feb. 8. The new standard will not be a conformance standard when it first comes online. It features 30 requirements and guidance on privacy-by-design principles for effectuating consumer rights, relevant roles and authorities, privacy control designs and more.
In an op-ed for The Hill, Baker Botts partner and former U.S. Federal Trade Commission acting chairman and commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen said policymakers made "meaningful progress" on consumer privacy legislation last year and 2023 "marks a perfect time to continue down this path to progress." The FTC is exploring ways to protect consumer data privacy, she said, and private-sector leaders can take proactive steps.
The Public Interest Privacy Center, a new U.S. nonprofit, will help school administrators work with parents and vet new education technologies, Government Technology reports. The organization, formed at the end of 2022, will be under the auspices of the American Associations of School Administrators, which serves superintendents of schools around the country.
The constitutionality of a keyword search warrant served to Google in a Colorado arson case is being challenged in the state Supreme Court, Bloomberg reports. After a 2020 fire killed five people, police failed to identify any suspects in their initial investigation. They then served a warrant to Google for any users who searched for the fire's address. Three teenagers were eventually arrested and charged with murder.