Voice data collection is becoming a marketing boon, but the practice is also setting off privacy alarm bells, ABC reports. Voice data now powers targeted marketing based on personal information extrapolated from recordings and privacy experts warn cyber criminals could breach stolen voice data to impersonate data subjects for access to more information.
The European Data Protection Board will use its next plenary meeting to discuss the proposed EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders will go before the board with a presentation on the commission's draft EU-U.S. adequacy decision. The EDPB will follow the presentation with its own formal discussion on "the state of play" regarding its nonbinding opinion of the draft decision. Editor's note: The IAPP's Joe Duball reported on the EU-U.S.
The Wall Street Journal reports TikTok is moving toward increased transparency for its data practices and content algorithms to ease U.S. concerns. Federal lawmakers previously scrutinized the platform for alleged data access issues leading to Chinese surveillance, but TikTok plans to address claims with new transparency principles.
There is much to unpack with the Irish Data Protection Commission's decisions against Meta resulting in a 390 million euro fine and forthcoming practical changes to the company's targeted advertising model. Reconsideration of legal bases for processing and the processing activities themselves are among the key points the decisions raise. Fox Rothschild Partner Odia Kagan, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP, PLS, runs down her top takeaways from the enforcement action.Full Story
In this week’s Global News Roundup, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued a pair of decisions. One compels data controllers to identify parties they sell personal data to under the EU General Data Protection Regulation and the other affirmed EU GDPR decisions can be enforced concurrently with separate legal cases in member states. France’s data protection authority, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés, issued a 5 million euro fine to TikTok. China began enforcement of its deep synthesis regulation. And a number of U.S.
France's data protection authority, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés, issued a 3 million euro fine to mobile application developer Voodoo over alleged nonconsensual user tracking. The CNIL's investigation found the company applies a technical identifier that "processes the information linked to the browsing habits for advertising purposes" when a Voodoo app is downloaded from Apple's App Store.
U.S. National Security Agency Director and head of U.S. Cyber Command Gen. Paul Nakasone is advocating for the renewal of a key component of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, CyberScoop reports. Nakasone recently voiced support for renewing Section 702 of FISA, which affords “intelligence agencies wide-ranging authorities to conduct surveillance of foreign persons located abroad” and said it has prevented terrorist attacks.
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.