In this week’s Global News Roundup, the European Data Protection Board presented candidates for upcoming chair and deputy chair vacancies. Data localization provisions were changed in India's draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill. And Canada's House of Commons approved the omnibus privacy legislation, Bill C-27, on its second reading. (IAPP member exclusive.) Full Story
Officials have received more than 20,000 public submissions on India's draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, the Hindustan Times reports. In a submission, Supreme Court of India Advocate and Cyber Saathi founder N.S.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission announced fresh employer guidance on handling the data of current, former and prospective employees.
The Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand announced a series of hour-long free webinars to be held during Privacy Week 2023, 8-14 May, on topics related to digital privacy, including online dating, biometrics and artificial intelligence.
A report filed by the Office of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence shows warrantless searches under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act dropped 96% last year, CyberScoop reports. U.S. intelligence agencies performed 120,000 searches on U.S. citizens or residents in 2022 compared to 3.4 million the year prior. The ODNI linked the drop to a new calculation method that excludes duplicate searches and fewer hyper-focused investigations requiring mass searches. The U.S.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development published a report outlining private-sector stances on international data flows and trust.
Momentum around children's privacy is reaching a fever pitch in the U.S. and, with a lack of concrete congressional action, states are stepping in — leading to sweeping change and a patchwork of regulation seeking to protect children online. IAPP Staff Writer Jennifer Bryant reports on the current activity at the state level — from age-appropriate design codes to laws regulating children's social media access.Full Story
U.S. prosecutors asked a federal judge to sentence former Uber Chief Information Security Officer Joe Sullivan to 15 months in prison after he obstructed an investigation into the company, BankInfoSecurity reports. In October 2022, Sullivan was convicted on charges of obstruction and misprision of a felony, "which refers to knowing something is a felony and covering it up." The charges stemmed from an hacking incident in 2017, where Sullivan oversaw the payment of USD100,000 in Bitcoin to two hackers under the guise of a "bug bounty" payment, but mislead the U.S.
Marking Privacy Awareness Week 2023, 1-7 May, Australian privacy regulators urged individuals, organizations and agencies to get "back to basics" on privacy. In a joint statement, regulators from New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria joined Information and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk in noting organizations and agencies should collect only necessary personal information, take steps to reasonably protect it and delete or permanently deidentify data when it is no longer needed.
Audio and video artificial intelligence tool Synthesia from ElevenLabs was able to replicate Wall Street Journal technology columnist Joanna Stern's voice. Stern wrote the tool fooled both her family and bank phone login system. She said "For quick sentences, the avatar can be quite convincing.