Questions about whether all privacy-related harms necessitate compensation for those impacted and what is just compensation for violations are percolating throughout legal jurisdictions. To better understand where the EU, U.K. and U.S.
Increasing regulations around privacy, data protection and artificial intelligence across the world all "fit together in this great big puzzle that is global privacy," Future of Privacy Forum Policy Manager for Global Privacy Bianca Marcu said.
The U.K. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology announced the country will be recognized with "associate" status by the Global Cross Border Privacy Rules Forum. The department said the status allows for "an opportunity to help drive co-operation" between CBPR Forum members moving forward.
Standard contractual clauses have become a crucial mechanism for cross-border data transfers.
Wired reports legislation is proposed to amend the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act to ban government entities from buying private data that required a police warrant to seize. The proposal focuses on location data, internet search history and web browsing. It would ban agencies from exchanging data typically requiring a "warrant, court order, or subpoena under law." U.S. Rep.
Cyberscoop reports on the use of algorithm disgorgement in cases by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and its potential for artificial intelligence enforcement. FTC Division of Privacy and Identity Protection acting Associate Director Ben Wiseman called algorithm disgorgement a "significant part" of the agency's AI enforcement strategy. "I think the main consideration that we are thinking through is these AI systems, these models are trained on lots and lots of consumer data." Wiseman said.
Brazil's data protection authority, the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, announced the winners of the inaugural "Danilo Doneda Monographs Prize." The awards, named after late data protection scholar professor Danilo Doneda, recognize top scholarly research initiatives in the area of personal data protection. Winning research topics included the interplay between data protection and artificial intelligence, irregular data processing, and children's data processing.
The Guatemala Transparency and Probity Commission sent a favorable opinion of initiative number 6,105 that provides for the approval of the "Data Protection Law." The bill now returns to the plenary of Congress for discussion in three debates. The initiative could be approved in a single debate if it is declared a national emergency, for which a favorable vote of two-thirds of deputies is required.
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office released a code of practice concerning data protection considerations for journalists and media outlets.
TikTok filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana to have a Montana law banning the social media platform from the state blocked by 1 Jan. 2024, Reuters reports. TikTok is seeking to have its case decided before the law's effective date at the start of the year, when the platform would be vulnerable to a USD10,000 fine for each in-state use of the app.Full story