Privacy bills advance in Arkansas, Pennsylvania
- Arkansas' Senate Bill 66, creating protections for minors online including age-verification requirements, passed the House and Senate and was sent to the governor for signature.
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Privacy's role as chatbots, generative AI proliferate
Chatbots and other generative artificial intelligence deployments are taking the world by storm. Wilmer Hale Associate Ali Jessani said these tools are "here to stay" with capability to "inevitably revolutionize both how we interact with technology and with each other." But the innovative tools raise questions about consumer privacy given how critical data harvesting is toward development. Jessani explains where the privacy concerns lie.Full Story
Czech DPA fines software company 13.7M euros
The Czech Republic's data protection authority, Úřad pro ochranu osobních údajů, fined cybersecurity software company Avast 13.7 million euros for allegedly illegally processing consumers' data. Consumer rights organization FACUA, which filed a complaint against the company in 2020, said users could have been identified through private browsing data collected and sold by the company without their knowledge or authorization.
First CPRA regulations finalized following OAL review
The California Privacy Protection Agency announced the first California Privacy Rights Act rulemaking package was approved by the California Office of Administrative Law following a review. The regulations bring updates and clarification to existing requirements under the California Consumer Privacy Act while also bringing new CCPA requirements brought forth by the CPRA. The finalized rules, which come ahead of the CPRA's 1 July enforcement, contain no substantive changes to the final draft submitted by the CPPA to the OAL in February.
Garante blocks ChatGPT data collection; group calls to stop new releases
- Italy's data protection authority, the Garante, ordered a "temporary limitation of the processing of data of Italian users" by ChatGPT developer OpenAI and opened an investigation into the artificial intelligence vendor. The Garante cited a lack of information provided to users about data collected by OpenAI and a lack of legal basis justifying "the mass collection and storage of personal data."
India's data protection bill to be tabled in Monsoon session
- India's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill will be tabled in Parliament during the Monsoon session, The Hindu BusinessLine reports. "We are on track and preparations are going on," Vaishnaw said.
Blauw breach now affects 1.5M people
The breach of market research company Blauw continues to have repercussions with reportedly 1.5 million people potentially affected, the NL Times reports. Beyond 780,000 Netherlands national railway passengers who had personally identifiable information stolen, 22,000 people who took a Vrienden van Amstel Live survey and 3,000 who participated in research for health insurer CZ also had their personal data compromised.
The IAPP's top 5 most read articles for the week of 27 March 2023
- IAPP Westin Research Fellow Anokhy Desai, CIPP/US, CIPT, broke down Iowa's newly passed comprehensive data privacy law.
- IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, offered takeaways from the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce's probing of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew over the platform's privacy and data security practice.
Advanced AI-based police surveillance tools showcased in UAE
Police surveillance tools of the future were displayed at a conference in Dubai, The New York Times reports. Such technology included a brain scanner purporting to detect lies, miniature video cameras that could be lodged inside a vape pen and cameras that can scan faces and license plates from a kilometer away. Many tools rely on advanced artificial intelligence, drones and facial recognition tech.
A view from DC: Slowing generative AI's roll
IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, offers his take on the latest privacy developments in the nation's capital and around the U.S., including a window into various initiatives aimed at simmering generative AI's momentum due to a range of privacy and nonprivacy concerns.Full Story
A view from Brussels: A preview of GPS23; upcoming CJEU decisions