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Combining legislation, rulemaking to address adtech privacy

In a piece for the Brookings Institution, Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow Cameron Kerry and Research Assistant Mishaela Robison proposed adding U.S. Federal Trade Commission rulemaking authority over digital advertising provisions in a potential federal privacy law. Kerry and Robison argued allowing FTC clarification on rules laid out in the proposed American Data Privacy and Protection Act would "enable thoughtful and evidence-based decisions to get these boundaries right." They added that "the bar for making changes (to the ADPPA) is high" this late in the U.S.

Garante fines Clubhouse owner 2M euros

Italy's data protection authority, the Garante, fined Alpha Exploration, owner of the social network Clubhouse, 2 million euros for violations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation. The Garante cited a lack of transparency around data use, users' ability to store and share audio without consent, sharing of account information without a legal basis and indefinite storage times for recordings.

EU lawmakers reach agreement on e-Evidence regulation

The Council of the European Union, European Parliament and European Commission reached an agreement on the e-Evidence regulation, Euractiv reports. Aiming to facilitate cross-border criminal investigations, the regulation implements a mechanism for law enforcement agencies to obtain electronic evidence stored in another EU country. It includes the European Preservation Order, under which a judge could order a service provider to preserve data related to a suspect that could be accessed at a later date.

Synthetic data a key to privacy by design practices in new Canadian smart city partnership

Toronto-based nonprofit Innovate Cities and synthetic data generation provider Replica Analytics joined forces in a new effort to help Canadian cities transition away from using personal data and instead utilize synthetic data. The basis of the partnership entails providing municipalities with synthetic data based on real-life data points to achieve smarter solutions for each given city.

Bumble, TikTok join effort to stop spread of nonconsensual explicit images

TikTok and Bumble have stepped up their efforts to combat the circulation of nonconsensual explicit images on their platforms, Bloomberg reports. U.K. nonprofit South West Grid for Learning previously worked with Meta to develop a system where users upload intimate photos of themselves to a Meta-created database that creates a hash, or a digital footprint used to prevent the uploading of the same image by another user.

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