TikTok requested the lawsuits accusing the platform of accessing user data through third-party websites be heard in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Axios reports. Co-lead of Dykema's Biometric Information Privacy Act practice team Melanie Chico, who specializes in Illinois privacy laws, said TikTok is asking the court if the claims are covered under a USD92 million settlement approved in 2022. Full Story
California SB 362, the Delete Act, passed out of the Senate and moved to cross-chamber consideration. The bill brings data broker requirements and limitations, including broker registration with the California Privacy Protection Agency and a streamlined broker deletion request mechanism facilitated by the agency. "The Delete Act is based on a very simple premise: Every Californian should be able to control who has access to their personal information and what they can do with it," state Sen. Josh Becker, D-Calif., said.
The IAPP is seeking responses for the "2023 Privacy Governance Survey" sponsored by EY. The survey examines various aspects of privacy and data protection operations, such as the organizational structure of the privacy function, privacy spending and factors that influence decisions on data use.
Microsoft announced it updated the cookie policy for its Bing search engine following a reprimand by France's data protection authority, the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes, GovInfoSecurity reports. In December 2022, the CNIL fined Microsoft 60 million euros "for misleading cookie policies that it says made it difficult for Bing users to decline data collection." Full Story
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada's Special Report to Parliament on several pandemic-related investigations was tabled in Parliament.
South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission announced a research group aimed at examining the impacts of biometric information collection and use. The group was created in the wake of recent developments with artificial intelligence-powered technologies that incorporate biometrics.
The Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information fined an unnamed bank 300,000 euros for violating transparency obligations under the EU General Data Protection Regulation in an automated decision rejecting a credit card application. "When companies make automated decisions, they are obliged to justify them in a valid and comprehensible manner," Commissioner Meike Kamp said.
The Kuwaiti government announced it will collect fingerprint scans of everyone entering the country, both citizens and noncitizens, Biometric Update reports. The effort entails installing 49 devices that scan individual's faces, eyes and fingerprints at all ports of entry, which are transferred to the Criminal Evidence Department.