Santa Clara County, California, Chief Privacy Officer Chris Pahl, CIPP/C, CIPP/E, CIPP/G, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, FIP, gives recommendations for how to get started in the privacy industry, which he entered more than 20 years ago. He explains how the field has changed and recommends assessing your current skills, networking with others in the industry and exploring certifications to gain professional experience.Full story
The Malaysia Department of Personal Data Protection will soon develop seven guidelines on how to manage personal data, Malaymail reports. The rules, which are to be developed under the Personal Data Protection Act 2010, involve data protection officers, notices of data breaches, portability, cross border data transfers and more.
IAB Europe expressed concerns to members of European Parliament over a draft report on a procedural regulation proposed for the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office announced fines totaling 250,000 GBP to two companies for marketing phone calls to people on the U.K's "do not call" register. Poxell was fined 150,000 GBP for allegedly making more than 2.6 million marketing phone calls without consumer consent.
A study by Consumer Reports and The Markup found that, on average, 2,230 companies shared consumer data on each participant with Facebook. Using a panel of 709 volunteers, the research examined server-to-server data sharing and found information such as email addresses and mobile advertising identification were shared with Meta. CR also called for the U.S.
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office opened the first in a series of public consultations on generative artificial intelligence. The first consultation will explore the legality around training generative AI models on personal data scraped from the internet. The ICO will solicit views from developers, users and civil society groups.
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., is anticipated to introduce a series of bipartisan bills that would regulate a range of artificial intelligence-related issues in the coming months, FedScoop reports. The initiatives would target AI concerns, such as deepfakes, jobs and training, algorithmic bias, digital privacy, national security, and AI innovation and competitiveness.
Denmark's data protection authority, Datatilsynet, laid out its priorities for 2024, with topics involving artificial intelligence and automation use, employee monitoring, data subject's right of access and more.
The EU Data Act is now in force. The legislation attempts to ensure fairness in the data economy by creating a competitive data market and offering legal clarity surrounding the use of certain types of data. The Data Act empowers users of connected devices to assume greater control of the data the devices produce and gives public sector entities greater access to private sector data to respond to public crises, in part. The law becomes applicable 12 Sept.
Spain's data protection authority, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, released its newest guidelines for how to treat analytics and cookies. The guidance allows for some cookies to bypass user consent, but advises notices of the exemption, as well as limits to cookie lifespan and data storage length. Data also cannot be matched with other processors.Full story