EU policymakers will focus on closing the most important legislative files in the next 12 months before the European elections in spring 2024. Major outstanding proposals include the Artificial Intelligence Act and the Data Act, which stand to pave the way for such regulation globally if Brussels can close negotiations. Member states will circle back to the deadlock around ePrivacy Regulation and child sexual abuse material.
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology published its Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework. NIST said the voluntary framework aims to help the private and public sectors "adapt to the AI landscape as technologies continue to develop, and to be used by organizations in varying degrees and capacities." U.S.
The Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union offered its latest compromise text for the proposed Data Act, Euractiv reports. As the council aims to finalize its position, new text updates provisions for business-to-government data access, international transfers and EU General Data Protection Regulation interplay.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada announced findings from an investigation into Home Depot's e-receipt sharing with Meta's Facebook. The OPC found the retailer shared receipts, which included encoded email addresses and in-store purchase information, without proper consent from consumers. According to the OPC's recommendation, Home Depot halted sharing with Facebook in October 2022.
Privacy has become a necessity in business and security professionals have taken note, Cisco Systems' Director of Privacy Robert Waitman, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPT, writes.
Bloomberg reports U.S. Congress obtained a whistleblower complaint alleging additional privacy and data security issues at Twitter before and shortly after Elon Musk's takeover. The unnamed whistleblower claimed approximately 4,000 Twitter employees had access to administrative settings that allowed a full takeover of any private account without user consent.
U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., announced committee and subcommittee majority leadership for the 118th Congress. The full committee spent the end of the 2022 session, with Rodgers as ranking member, approving the proposed American Data Privacy and Protection Act for a House floor vote. Rodgers named Rep.
European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee may tighten political advertising regulations to reduce election interference and improve transparency, Forbes reports. An IMCO proposal allows advertisers to only use personal data expressly given to them for political advertising purposes. This would ban “microtargeting” voters “on the basis of their gender, race, sexual orientation, or other individual characteristics,” as well as the use of children’s data entirely.
U.S. lawmakers in both houses of Congress introduced legislation banning TikTok from being downloaded on Americans’ devices, The Hill reports. The bill, introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-MO, and Rep.