The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights issued guidance to entities and business associates using tracking technology under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
The proposed Artificial Intelligence Act would be the first horizontal regulation of AI in the world, but, as always, the devil is in the details. Though the Council of the European Union has nearly completed its version, the European Parliament is still negotiating its version. IAPP Editorial Director Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP, looks at how other EU lawmakers and stakeholders are crafting this massive, precedent-setting legislation.Full Story
IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, breaks down the latest privacy happenings in the nation’s capital, including a dive into comments by U.S. state attorneys general on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for commercial surveillance and lax data security. Also, quick-hit notes on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, U.S. privacy law comparison and more.Full Story
The Future of Privacy Forum and Asian Business Law Institute released a report comparing personal data processing requirements in 14 jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region. The report gives "lawmakers, governments, and regulators who draft, review or implement data protection laws ...
The IAPP updated its U.S. Federal Privacy Legislation Tracker, which summarizes more than 100 pieces of privacy-related legislation introduced by members of the 117th Congress. The tracker analyzes each bill's key provisions to provide a clearer picture of law and policymaking around privacy issues on Capitol Hill. It includes looks at comprehensive privacy proposals, as well as more tailored bills covering the health and financial sectors, children's privacy and more.Full Story
Data retention has long been a blind spot of Europe's otherwise strict data protection regime. But a possible practical solution might be in sight, journalist Luca Bertuzzi writes. Bertuzzi explored cases in Germany that exemplify legal issues around data retention, possibilities for targeted retention related to specific incidents and attempts by EU member states to push data retention provisions in the context of the ePrivacy Regulation.Full Story
The IAPP is calling for respondents to take part in the annual IAPP-TRU Salary Survey. The anonymous survey provides insights into the salaries and additional compensations of privacy professionals and their teams. This year's survey is expanded to include both in-house and external privacy roles, to provide more comprehensive breakdowns by industry, geography, market and organization.Full Story
During The New York Times Dealbook Summit, TikTok CEO Shou Chew said the video platform will move data to the Oracle cloud infrastructure in the future, where "only U.S. residents can access it," The Wall Street Journal reports. Chew said "no other company is trying to pursue" this kind of solution. He also said TikTok's user data is stored on servers in Virginia and Singapore, noting no foreign government has ever requested U.S.
The IAPP Privacy Around the Globe LinkedIn Live series is headed to South Africa Dec. 6. ABSA Bank Group Head of Data Privacy Amenda Makhetha, CIPM, will join IAPP Vice President and Chief Knowledge Officer Caitlin Fennessy, CIPP, to discuss the country’s Protection of Personal Information Act of 2013, the latest on regulatory priorities, privacy enforcement, privacy professionals’ top areas of focus in the region and more.Full Story