On a recent edition of Euractiv’s “The Tech Brief” podcast, technology journalist Luca Bertuzzi explored the topic of European data protection regulators stepping up their enforcement actions.
Brazil’s data protection authority, the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, opened a public comment period for how children and adolescents’ data should be processed under the General Law for the Protection of Personal Data. The topic is subject to debate because there is “a situation of legal uncertainty for treatment agents, due to the lack of definition about which legal hypotheses authorize” the processing of children’s data.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's comment period for its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on commercial surveillance and lax data security practices is still more than a month away. However, the agency and stakeholders were allowed a golden opportunity to better understand what rules could or should look like during a recent public forum featuring panel discussions and a public comment session.
The Higher Regional Court of the German city of Karlsruhe overturned the Public Procurement Chamber of Baden-Württemberg decision that would have allowed hospitals’ digital discharge management to store data in Luxembourg. The two municipal hospitals in Baden-Württemberg had a contract to transmit data to a Luxembourg subsidiary of a U.S. company. However, the Karlsruhe court overruled the decision on the grounds transferring data to the U.S.
The European Data Protection Board will discuss its rules of procedure during its upcoming meeting Sept. 12. Also on the agenda is a dialogue about the consistency mechanism for applying the EU General Data Protection Regulation by member state supervisory authorities. The meeting will feature an update on the European House of Data Protection.Full Story
The rise in data privacy and protection awareness among consumers and governments alike puts proper data handling at a premium as it relates to a company’s long-term success.
Sectoral experts will join members of U.S. President Joe Biden's administration at the White House for a discussion on privacy, competition, online safety and Big Tech harms, Axios reports. The dialogue will focus on outlining specific harms stemming from Big Tech's practices and platform accountability.
There are growing issues and risks around the increasing deployment of customer identity and access management systems. The emerging trend for addressing these potential issues is self-sovereign identity solutions, which provide more control, choice and transparency over how personal data is handled by identity service providers. In this white paper, IAPP Senior Fellow for Privacy Engineering Katharina Koerner, CIPP/US, reviews the extent of SSI’s promise and what privacy professionals need to consider with this particular solution.
Civil society members wrote to the World Bank raising concerns regarding plans to roll out a digital identification system. The 73 signatories urged the bank "to take immediate steps to cease activities that promote harmful models of digital identification systems" while calling for impact assessments and more transparency.