Vietnam's government published a Decree on Protection of Personal Data, effective 1 July. The decree implements principles around data collection, processing and storage. Under the decree, organizations are required to notify the Ministry of Public Security within 72 hours of detecting a violation. Full Story
MediaPost reports Google's work toward a third-party cookie deprecation recently employed artificial intelligence to build a "privacy-preserved" ad-targeting model. In the first quarter, Google Ads ran tests on how interest-based audience solutions that rely on AI react with privacy-preserving signals. Preliminary results showed positive signs of balance between effective advertising and maintaining privacy.
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office reprimanded Surrey and Sussex police for using an app that recorded and automatically saved more than 200,000 phone calls without individuals' knowledge.
Digital tracking pixels and similar technologies are posing an increasing cybersecurity risk, Corvus Insurance Senior Vice President of Risk and Response Lauren Winchester writes in InfoSecurity Magazine. Law firms, regulators and insurers are paying heightened attention to the tracking pixels' vulnerabilities when they assess a company's risk.
Despite concerns by U.S. policymakers over the security of TikTok users’ data, Chinese law allows for redress for individual’s whose privacy has been violated, New York University U.S.-Asia Law Institute Research Scholar Chi Yin and Nankai University School of Law associate professor Tonghui Zhu write in the South China Morning Post. The authors pointed to two instances where TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance "inappropriately" obtained data belonging to journalists.
U.K. Minister of State in the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology Julia Lopez presented the proposed Data Protection and Digital Information Bill for its second reading in the U.K. House of Commons.
Washington state's House voted 57-40 for concurrence and final approval of House Bill 1155, the My Health My Data Act. The broad-based data privacy bill takes effect 31 March 2024 and establishes consumer rights, consent requirements for data practices concerning personal health care information, and a private right of action. Upon transmission to Gov.
Politico reports on how the health care industry is responding to federal enforcement actions around data privacy. Some health care firms have discontinued "advertising with major platforms like Google and Facebook," which could make it more difficult for consumers to find services online.