The EU Agency for Cybersecurity released a guide outlining the standardization process for artificial intelligence cybersecurity. The document contains updates on existing standards, as well as those in the drafting process and under consideration.
European Parliament voted 500-23 with 110 abstentions to adopt its position on the proposed Data Act. Parliament touted the proposal for establishing "common rules governing the sharing of data generated by the use of connected products or related services ... to ensure fairness in data sharing contracts." Lawmakers also mentioned how artificial intelligence-based products will be better supported and enabled by the proposal.
Firefox Android launched its "Total Cookie Protection," which reportedly stops cookies from tracking users as they navigate from website to website, according to a company blog post. Total Cookie Protection maintains separate "cookie jars" that isolate cookies embedded to that webpage alone and do not allow other websites to access data collected from a given user.
Cybersecurity experts warn ransomware gangs are taking a more public approach in efforts to coerce their victims to pay, Axios reports. In general, ransomware payments made to hackers have been decreasing lately, and gangs are now openly flaunting details about the data they steal to "publicly shame" victims into paying to reaccess their personal data.
France's data protection authority, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés, has been among the most active EU privacy regulators in recent years and that trend won't stop in 2023. CNIL Secretary General Louis Dutheillet de Lamothe unpacked the authority's enforcement priorities for the year, including mobile apps, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, during a keynote speech at the IAPP Data Protection Intensive: France.
Digital transformation is progressing in the health care sector and it generates large volumes of data, offering a wide range of opportunities for research and innovation. However, with patient data, these opportunities may clash with requirements of applicable data protection laws, particularly consent requirements.
On March 15, IAPP Vice President and Chief Knowledge Officer Caitlin Fennessy, CIPP/US, and IAPP Legal Extern Enobong "Gift" Ekim, CIPM, will discuss the current and future state of privacy in Nigeria as part of the IAPP Privacy Around the Globe LinkedIn Live series.
As part of its Digital Economy Papers series, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development released a report on emerging privacy-enhancing technologies.
Privacy experts can now use a new standard, the ISO/IEC 27559:2022 privacy-enhancing data deidentification framework. The result of a five-year effort, the framework will play a role in establishing best practices for the reuse and sharing of data about people, Privacy Analytics Chief Methodologist Luk Arbuckle writes.
MediaPost reports the U.S. Federal Trade Commission requested a 37% budget increase, approximately USD160 million, from U.S. Congress for the fiscal year 2024.