Toronto-based nonprofit Innovate Cities and synthetic data generation provider Replica Analytics joined forces in a new effort to help Canadian cities transition away from using personal data and instead utilize synthetic data. The basis of the partnership entails providing municipalities with synthetic data based on real-life data points to achieve smarter solutions for each given city.
The Brussels Times reports a bill to reform the Belgian Data Protection Authority was referred to Belgium's Council of State, as a result of new discrepancies between ruling and opposing parties over the bill's proposal for director appointments. Overall, the bill seeks to boost DPA authority, independence and expertise.
During its Dec. 5 plenary session, the European Data Protection Board will discuss disputed draft decisions of the Irish Supervisory Authority against Meta Platforms' Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp services. The decisions are subject to a dispute-resolution process under Article 65 of the EU General Data Protection Resolution.
Brazil's commission of jurists charged with drafting artificial intelligence regulations will deliver its final report to President of the Federal Senate of Brazil Rodrigo Pacheco Dec. 6.
TikTok and Bumble have stepped up their efforts to combat the circulation of nonconsensual explicit images on their platforms, Bloomberg reports. U.K. nonprofit South West Grid for Learning previously worked with Meta to develop a system where users upload intimate photos of themselves to a Meta-created database that creates a hash, or a digital footprint used to prevent the uploading of the same image by another user.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights issued guidance to entities and business associates using tracking technology under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
The proposed Artificial Intelligence Act would be the first horizontal regulation of AI in the world, but, as always, the devil is in the details. Though the Council of the European Union has nearly completed its version, the European Parliament is still negotiating its version. IAPP Editorial Director Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP, looks at how other EU lawmakers and stakeholders are crafting this massive, precedent-setting legislation.Full Story
IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, breaks down the latest privacy happenings in the nation’s capital, including a dive into comments by U.S. state attorneys general on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for commercial surveillance and lax data security. Also, quick-hit notes on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, U.S. privacy law comparison and more.Full Story