The Wall Street Journal reports medical researchers are considering the efficacy of artificial intelligence-generated synthetic data in accounting for "complexity and the variability in healthcare and science." Adoption of synthetic data for drug and medical research remains low due to the need for accurate synthetic data to conduct research and relatively few vendors in the market. Full story
Utilizing big data technologies can effectively process the large amounts of data generated by Internet of Things devices to optimize efficiency, IoT Business News reports.
A former Pepsi distribution warehouse worker in Illinois filed a federal class-action lawsuit in New York alleging the company collected voice prints of employees without consent and in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, Top Class Actions reports.
India's Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw will introduce the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 3 Aug. in the lower house of Parliament, The Indian Express reports.
Some businesses are hesitant to follow the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and may maintain their standard contractual clauses to transfer data between jurisdictions, The Wall Street Journal reports. The companies reluctant to sign onto the framework are waiting to see if the DPF is challenged in EU courts. Previously, more than 5,000 companies transferred data under the EU-U.S.
The U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology voted 35-0 on a favorable report for House Resolution 4755 on privacy-enhancing technology research. The bill, which is now eligible for full House consideration, aims to "support research on privacy enhancing technologies and promote responsible data use." Editor's note: The IAPP's Müge Fazlioglu, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, outlined several federal privacy-related bills under consideration by the 118th U.S.
The Restricted Committee of France's data protection authority, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés, closed its 2021 injunction against Google for its cookie consent practices that resulted in a 150 million euro ePrivacy Directive fine.
TeachPrivacy President and CEO Daniel Solove wrote an open letter to higher education administrators imploring greater attention to privacy law across institutions. The letter proposed adding more faculty or improving curriculum. Signatories included practitioners and academics.Full story
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services amended its proposed rulemaking on the protection of reproductive health privacy to include provisions to protect information on gender-affirming care, Bloomberg Law reports. The proposal to amend the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act initially aimed to limit provider sharing of reproductive health data. The initial proposal drew mixed reactions from U.S.
The New York Times reports U.S. President Joe Biden's Intelligence Advisory Board recommended prohibiting the FBI from fully utilizing warrantless surveillance under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.