Toyota blames "human error" for leaving Japanese customers' data exposed for a decade, Reuters reports. The company said identification numbers and location data of vehicles belonging to more than two million customers who signed up for Toyota's main cloud service platform since 2012 were left publicly available after the cloud system was set to public instead of private.Full Story
The House of Commons of Canada's Standing Committee on Industry and Technology published Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne's submission to parliamentary debates on federal privacy reform. Dufresne said Bill C-27 and its proposal for the Consumer Privacy Protection Act "is a step in the right direction, but it can and must go further," while balancing consumer protection and business innovation.
Members of European Parliament voted 306-27 with 231 abstentions to adopt a nonbinding opinion rejecting the proposed EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. The opinion called the DPF "an improvement" from its predecessor, the invalidated EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, but MEPs took issue with ongoing bulk data collection by U.S. foreign intelligence agencies and the lack of a "lawsuit-proof regime," among other outstanding issues.
European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection each approved the proposed Artificial Intelligence Act. "We are on the verge of building a real landmark legislation for the digital landscape, not only for Europe but also for the entire world," Italian Member of European Parliament and AI Act co-rapporteur Brando Benifei said.
New challenges stemming from artificial intelligence are cropping up with each passing day. Privacy professionals are facing data-related AI implications head on, but J.B.
France's data protection authority, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés, selected Contentsquare, Hugging Face and Lifen to benefit from its "enhanced support" over the coming months.
BankInfoSecurity reports U.K. Information Commissioner John Edwards does not foresee a breach of the EU-U.K. adequacy agreement if U.K. Parliament passes the proposed Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.
In a letter to nearly 24 data brokers, a group of 10 lawmakers asked a series of questions about the companies' privacy practices, including whether they collect data on consumers' health, locations, purchase history or application use, MediaPost reports. The lawmakers said "existing laws do not sufficiently protect Americans' data from misuse" and enacting a national privacy law is a "top priority."Full Story
A WhatsApp user posted on Twitter that the encrypted messaging app allegedly accessed his cellphone's microphone while he was sleeping, the Daily Mail reports. The publication reviewed posts on customer service boards and Reddit, in which users complained WhatsApp accessed their microphones, going back five years. In response, a spokesperson from WhatsApp parent company Meta claimed the user experienced a bug within the Android operating system.