The Argentina Agency of Access to Public Information along with the Federal Council for Transparency prepared guidelines for how to protect personal data. The framework is meant to help other entities create their own plans.Full story
Israel's Privacy Protection Authority issued a report on data security vulnerabilities organizations assisting the public face since the start of the war in Gaza. The report found when citizens applied for resources offered through the various entities, their personally identifiable information was, broadly speaking, left unsecured either by the organization itself or through its third-party software providers. Full story
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights produced two reports to Congress about compliance and breaches of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
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Former employees claimed Meta's social media platforms subscription tool enabled child exploitation on "parent-managed minor accounts," The Wall Street Journal reports.
Apple plans to update iMessage to defend the platform from possible decryption by quantum computers, Reuters reports. Apple's blog said its new "PQ3" protocol will allow the company to protect user data from future encryption-breaking methods with "technical safeguards aimed at closing that window of opportunity."Full story
Once the final EU Artificial Intelligence Act is approved by European Parliament, some fine tuning will be required to reconcile the law's debiasing exception for using sensitive information to remove discriminatory elements within algorithms and the EU General Data Protection Regulation's prohibition on the processing and storage of sensitive data, iHub PhD candidate Marvin van Bekkum and University of Amsterdam Researcher at the Institute for Information Law Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius write.Full stor
IAPP Westin Research Fellow Andrew Folks, CIPP/US, has received many inquiries from privacy professionals about why Florida's Digital Bill of Rights and Washington state's My Health My Data Act are not included in the IAPP US State Privacy Legislation Tracker. He explains why both laws do not fall into the "comprehensive" classification based on scope, coverage and consumer rights.Full story
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced a USD16.5 million fine and corrective measures to software provider Avast over alleged unfulfilled privacy claims that led to nonconsensual sale of user browsing data. Avast allegedly indicated its products would block third-party tracking while collecting, retaining and selling data without proper notice or consent.
Court of Justice of the European Union Advocate General Priit Pikamäe issued an opinion that a court enforcement officer can legally sell a database containing personal information for the purpose of estimating its value in a civil law proceeding without the consent of the data subjects.