Republican members of the U.S. House are urging the Federal Trade Commission to stop certain enforcement efforts until President-elect Donald Trump assumes office January 2025, MediaPost reports. Rep.
IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, offers his take on the latest privacy and AI governance developments in the nation's capital and around the U.S. This week, he looks at how the results of the 2024 U.S. presidential and congressional election may bring changes to how federal agencies and U.S. Congress may approach privacy and AI governance.Full story
The U.K. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology debuted a tool and supporting checklist to help entities assess the costs and benefits of adopting privacy enhancing technologies.
Switzerland's National Cyber Security Centre observed an increase in cyber incidents in 2024, with an incident reported to the agency every 8.5 minutes. The NCSC said 34,789 cybersecurity incidents were reported in the first half of 2024, almost doubling the agency's report from the first half of 2023. The majority of reported cases were due to fraud and phishing attempts.Full story
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner published guidance to ensure consumers' personal information is not shared by businesses while responding to consumers' negative reviews online. The OAIC said, under Australian Privacy Principle 6, organizations that obtain "personal information for a particular purpose cannot use or disclose that information for another purpose" without consent. Full story
The Washington Post reports on the discussions at the U.S. Supreme Court over whether Meta's Facebook should have disclosed to investors the details of its massive data privacy breach involving Cambridge Analytica.
Norway released its National Digitalization Strategy 2024-2030 that aims to accelerate innovation while strengthening privacy standards and securing its digital infrastructure.
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity is asking stakeholders to provide comments on the NIS2 Implementing Act technical guidance, which is meant to help member states and entities comply with the cybersecurity requirements. The consultation is open until 9 Dec.Full story
Hundreds of privacy regulators, civil society, industry and academia representatives gathered in Jersey last week for the 46th annual Global Privacy Assembly.
Data protection authorities in African nations are positioned to play a key regulatory role as various entities throughout the continent begin to integrate AI technology into their operations.