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IAPP Managing Director, Europe, Isabelle Roccia offers the latest on the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act. She also details the next steps if U.S. President Joe Biden issues an executive order on EU-U.S. data flows. And, a brief look at the artificial intelligence liability rules directive. Full Story

The Belgian Data Protection Authority informed the Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe it would move to potentially validate the action plan for delivering “functionality to the Transparency and Consent Framework.” This came despite IAB Europe contending the "Belgian Market Court’s interim ruling" issued in September "declared illegal the (Belgium DPA) decision (which served as a basis for the action plan) because of the (DPA's) lack of due care." The Market Court referred the action plan to the Court of Justice of the European Union.

U.S. President Joe Biden’s executive order implementing the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework is a major step toward restoring trust in EU-U.S. data flows. To discuss the major components of the order, IAPP Chief Knowledge Officer Caitlin Fennessy, CIPP/US, will host a LinkedIn Live Oct. 7, with American University Washington College of Law Senior Project Director Alex Joel, CIPP/G, CIPP/US, Alston & Bird Senior Counsel Peter Swire, CIPP/US, and Future of Privacy Forum Vice President for Global Privacy Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna.

Access Now Africa Policy Manager Elias Okwara reflects on his privacy journey in Africa since returning home to Kenya in 2017. He noted that while technological developments have been slow in some regions on the continent, approximately two-thirds of African countries have passed privacy protection laws.