Trinidad and Tobago's Ministry of Digital Transformation Executive Legal Advisor Rudyard Davidson said work is ongoing to fully operationalize the country's Data Protection Act and Electronic Transaction Act. "We want to do it as a matter of urgency," Davidson said, noting ongoing consultations with stakeholders on various regulations associated with the acts could be complete in fiscal year 2024.
A recent data breach of a third-party marketing vendor that exposed information of 9 million AT&T customers highlights the telecommunications sector's vulnerability to cyberattacks, Axios reports.
A New York City resident is suing Amazon in federal court for allegedly not publicizing its use of biometric cameras and scanners in its Amazon Go stores in the city, MediaPost reports.
More childcare centers are using apps to allow parents to monitor their children while at daycare, facilitate billing and to communicate with caretakers, EdSurge reports. However, as Electronic Frontier Foundation Director of Engineering Alexis Hancock discovered, "there is really no regulating body for privacy and security" of the apps childcare centers have begun using and she found a handful of apps lacked two-factor authentication.
The Colorado attorney general's office announced finalization of the Colorado Privacy Act regulations. The office highlighted rules implemented on the topics of universal opt-out mechanisms, data protection impact assessments, user profiling and transparency. The rules were formulated based on feedback from 137 written comments.
At a time when rights to control and limit the use of personal data are standard features of every data privacy bill, it may be surprising to read they represent a threat to public safety. IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, looks at recent critiques of the American Data Privacy and Protection Act in the discussion of consumer data rights.Full Story
Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union Priit Pikamäe ruled automated processing to determine an individual's probability of obtaining a loan constitutes profiling under the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
Belgium's data protection authority, the APD, voluntarily suspended the six-month implementation period of IAB Europe's Transparency and Consent Framework action plan. While the APD validated IAB's plan to bring the TCF into compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation, outstanding points are being reviewed by the Court of Justice of the European Union and an appeal is before the Belgian Market Court.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's new Office of Technology published analysis and subsequent guidance on third-party tracking pixels. The office unpacked recent enforcement work by the FTC on tracking in the cases of digital health providers GoodRx and BetterHelp.
Germany's Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information published its 2022 activity report.