The Hellenic Data Protection Authority released a statement regarding children's data protection in the context of child sexual abuse material. The Greek regulator said it is "absolutely forbidden to disseminate information and news that can directly or indirectly lead to the disclosure of the identity" of CSAM victims.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released a report on examining the global policies and initiatives around data flows.
IAB and IAB Tech Lab created IAB Privacy’s Multi-State Privacy Agreement, providing updated privacy protocols and agreements to help ensure state privacy law compliance. The MSPA, which works alongside IAB Tech Lab’s U.S. State Signals initiative, helps marketers, agencies, publishers and advertising technology companies, to comply with privacy laws in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah and Virginia.
In this week’s global legislative roundup, the Australian Information Commissioner and Communications and Media Authority investigate telecom company Optus for its recent data breach. Italy’s data protection authority launched an investigation into a voice-replication application. And the Court of Justice of the European Union issued a nonbinding opinion that could reduce compensation to EU citizens in data breach cases. (IAPP member exclusive.) Full Story
MediaPost reports U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., supports the Federal Trade Commission's commercial surveillance and lax data security rulemaking initiative.
Zoetop, owner of online fashion retailers SHEIN and ROMWE, will pay $1.9 million in penalties to the state of New York following a 2018 data breach that impacted more than 800,000 New Yorkers, state Attorney General Letitia James announced. Under the agreement, Zoetop will also strengthen cybersecurity measures, including hashing customer passwords and implementing network monitoring and incident response policies with timely investigations, consumer notice and password resets.
Building trust in global commerce in the digital economy is only as good as the privacy and cybersecurity a company offers, according to KPMG. The company released its latest research, “Cyber trust insights 2022,” which surveyed 1,881 executives from companies around the world to better ascertain the extent to which C-suite executives understand how much their company relies on cybersecurity and the need to uphold customers’ privacy.