Brazil's data protection authority, the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, published its report detailing the authority's regulatory actions in the second half of 2024. The ANPD worked on several initiatives, including projects to improve children's privacy online, personal data protection and incident reporting.Full story
Sweden's data protection authority, Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten, published a guide on impact assessments when processing personal data. The IMY indicated the guide aims to "facilitate the work of impact assessments and reduce uncertainty about how the various steps are carried out and how the regulations should be understood."Full story
Former U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Commissioners hired law firm Arnold & Porter after they were terminated from their positions, Bloomberg Law reports. Former PCLOB Democrats Ed Felten and Travis LeBlanc were removed by the Trump administration in January.
Nigeria's Data Protection Commission and the Communications Commission launched the Data Protection in Telecommunications Working Group. The group will aim to improve data protection by developing initiatives to protect citizens' personal data when using digital devices and "ensure the actual practice of data protection and privacy in the telecommunications sector."Full story
Brazil's data protection authority, the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, recapped its participation in the 13th edition of the Brazil-European Union Digital Dialogue. Notably, the ANPD indicated Brazil remains "in direct dialogue" with the EU regarding an adequacy decision.
IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, offers his take on the latest privacy and AI governance developments in the nation's capital and around the U.S. This week, he dissects the composition of a U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce Republican working group dedicated to a path forward on comprehensive data privacy legislation.Full story
India's government extended the public consultation on the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Act rules from 18 Feb. to 5 March, Moneycontrol reports. A Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology notice indicated the extension was "in response to the representations received from several stakeholders."Full story
The update to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Rule may ultimately be delayed from entering into force under the Trump administration, but "companies should plan compliance strategies now," Entertainment Software Rating Board Privacy Certified Senior Vice President Stacy Feuer, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz Associate Maria Nava, CIPP/US, and ESRB Senior Director Courtney Cox, CIPP/US, CIPT, write.
In the fourth installment of a series on AI literacy, Knowledge Bridge AI co-founder and EWR Consulting's Erica Werneman Root, CIPP/E, CIPM, and SkyShowtime Chief Compliance Officer and Mahay Consulting Services Director Monica Mahay, CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP, explore how to integrate the concept of AI literacy into compliance frameworks. They share three key steps on how AI literacy can be "embedded throughout the operational fabric of an organization." Full story
U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson plans to support the Trump administration's maneuver to empower the president to fire the heads of independent federal agencies, including the FTC, at will, Axios reports. The move would end a 90-year Supreme Court-ruled protection of independent agency administrators from cause-related terminations.