The European Commission published a competitiveness report by former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi detailing efforts to bolster the economy and increase innovation. The report outlines strategies to strengthen privacy and advance artificial intelligence, cloud security, and organizational compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation.Full story
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the AI Standards Hub are partnering to improve the OECD Catalogue of Tools and Metrics for Trustworthy AI. The catalog will now feature specific artificial intelligence standards from the AI Standards Hub's Standards Database and will be updated as new standards become available.
The European Commission released a FAQ explaining the EU Data Act. The act will instill rules around data access, encourage fair allocation of data, and clarify "who can use what data and under which conditions" when it goes into effect in 2025.Full story
Salesforce is expected to purchase data protection solution provider Own Company for USD1.9 billion "to accelerate growth of its data security and privacy products," Reuters reports. Salesforce also announced it will buy artificial intelligence company Tenyx. Full story
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office announced participation in the Joint Statement on a Common International Approach to Age Assurance.
Norway's data protection authority, Datatilsynet, published its 2023 annual report detailing its efforts to strengthen data security.
Israel's Privacy Protection Authority issued a guidance note for entities looking to move their databases to cloud storage, including an outline of the challenges they might face. The agency warned against problems like creating incorrect definitions, not properly securing application programming interfaces, and making sure all data is backed up and secure before transferring it to the cloud.Full story
Join IAPP Research and Insights Director Joe Jones 10 Sept. for an IAPP web conference focusing on how privacy professionals' responsibilities are evolving in the age of artificial intelligence and big data. TRU Staffing Partners founder and CEO Jared Coseglia and IAPP Principal Researcher, Privacy Management, Saz Kanthasamy, CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP will participate in the discussion.
Reuters reports on the friction around the Google Privacy Sandbox program aimed at replacing third-party cookies, which the company has since backtracked on. Smaller ad firms say ongoing anticompetition investigations into the technology giant's dominance over the search market is hurting their bottom lines as they try to adapt to the program and face costly adoption delays.Full story
An important distinction when determining legal requirements for automated decision-making technology will be discerning whether all data points regarding a system's decision impacting a human being were fed into an algorithm to render a decision. Paysafe Director of Privacy Kiril Kalev, AIGP, CIPP/C, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, FIP, and data privacy consultant Danica Vranjanin, CIPP/E, CIPM, explain how failing to successfully make this determination could lead to misinterpretations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation's ADMT provisions, for example.