The Belgian Data Protection Authority's Hielke Hijmans announced he is a candidate to replace Wojciech Wiewiórowski as the European Data Protection Supervisor, Euronews reports. Hijmans is the chair of the Belgian DPA's litigation chamber and member of its board of directors. Wiewiórowski is reportedly seeking a second term as EDPS with his first five-year term set to end in December.Full story
New Mexico claimed in a lawsuit that social platform Snapchat is not doing enough to protect underage users from child predators on the app, The Washington Post reports. Snapchat spokesperson Russ Caditz-Peck said the company shares "concerns about the online safety of young people and are deeply committed to Snapchat being a safe and positive place for our entire community, particularly for our younger users."Full story
Australia announced the launch of the Artificial Intelligence Safety Standard, a voluntary guide for businesses to successfully manage AI technology.
Japan's Personal Information Protection Commission released a report on the feedback it received on potential amendments to the Act on the Protection of Personal Information. The PPC received a response from 72 organizations and 1,659 residents that suggested potential opt-out consent methods as well as stronger protections for children's data and biometric information.Full story
The Wall Street Journal reports chief privacy officers are seeing their teams take on more digital governance responsibilities. Citing the newly released IAPP Organizational Digital Governance Report 2024, 80% of privacy teams have expanded their work in additional areas like artificial intelligence and data governance. Mastercard Chief Privacy and Data Responsibility Officer Caroline Louveaux said privacy officers often face varying, and sometimes competing, demands as new privacy and data laws emerge.
The proliferation of digital governance regulation across the globe places a bigger premium than ever before on deciphering application and subsequent compliance. The IAPP Organizational Digital Governance Report 2024 aims to outline how organizations are handling internal digital governance, including perspective from 20 senior decision-makers on defining and implementing those structures.
U.S. House Republicans wrote a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris urging the administration to support legislation to limit the government's purchases of consumer data from data brokers.
The European Data Protection Board will hold a remote dialogue for stakeholders to provide input on guidelines for applying data protection law to pay-or-consent models 18 Nov. The guidelines will build on the board's prior pay-or-consent opinion, but the forthcoming guidance "will have a broader scope of application." The EDPB will begin collecting stakeholders for the November event 12 Sept.Full story
The IAB Tech Lab unveiled its "Privacy Taxonomy," which is available for public comment until 5 Oct. The Privacy Taxonomy was developed by the Privacy Implementation and Accountability Task Force and aims to standardize the process for labeling privacy and organizational governance-related data elements, data uses and data subjects.Full story
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