InnovationAus reports the bill to reform Australia's Privacy Act has been delayed again. The federal government now anticipates introducing the legislation the week of 9 Sept., which opens the possibility that it may not pass before the end of the year. Additionally, a portion of the 106 stakeholder recommendations slated to be included in the reform will potentially be omitted from the bill text.Full story
India's Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw announced the government is anticipating releasing the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Act rules within a month, Business Standard reports. He said the final draft of the rules were reviewed by government officials last week ahead of their public release.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is considering how it could use young children's biometric information to track migrants when they arrive at the border, MIT Technology Review reports. Training biometric recognition technology on minors is difficult because of the privacy protections typically afforded to children.
Quebec recently published the Government Cybersecurity and Digital Strategy for 2024-2028 with the goal of increasing cybersecurity protections. nNovation's Florence So and Kris Klein, CIPP/C, CIPM, FIP, examined Quebec's plans to increase data protection safeguards and bolster the development of artificial intelligence.Full story
Forbes reports on the aims of Fabric Cryptography, a startup that created a bespoke processing chip used to break down algorithms into their mathematical elements. The technology could provide avenues to show a proof is correct without revealing the data behind it or to show an algorithm is not biased, the company said.Full story
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act does not require parents to seek arbitration in a current lawsuit concerning a schools' data collection practices. The case against IXL Learning alleges improper data collection, use and sale by the education technology company on its website and through its school-used software.Full story
The Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority opened surveys for stakeholders for establishing key provisions on transferring personal data outside the country using standard contractual clauses or binding corporate rules. The surveys are each open through 30 Aug.Full story
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against portions of the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, The Washington Post reports. The court upheld injunctions on content moderation provisions over First Amendment concerns while lifting the block placed on the law's privacy measures, including age estimation and privacy-by-default standards. Meanwhile, Gov.
The Markup interviewed DataBricks Chief Scientist and MosaicML founder Jonathan Frankle about the ethics of how companies use customer data to train artificial intelligence models and how companies are increasingly integrating it into everyday devices. Frankle currently works with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on AI issues.
Denmark's Agency for Digitalisation, the Digitaliseringsstyrelsen, said it discovered 200 websites collecting data without users' permission. The investigation found 42.2% of websites used unclassified cookies and 27.6% lacked information in their cookie banners.Full story