California Attorney General Rob Bonta led a coalition of state attorneys general on a joint statement regarding the U.S. Treasury Department granting the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency access to sensitive payment systems. "The President does not have the power to give away our private information to anyone he chooses, and he cannot cut federal payments approved by Congress," the statement read, in part.
Technology companies plan to increase their investments into AI technology after Microsoft, Meta and Google spent approximately USD215 billion on AI investments in 2024, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Since its release in September 2024, the report on EU competitiveness led by former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has been surprisingly lasting, IAPP Managing Director, Europe, Isabelle Roccia, CIPP/E, writes. She explores the resonance of the report, noting, "The breadth and impact of such an initiative has yet to be specified. There are a few indicators to watch to gauge how serious the commission might be about its ambitions."Read more
In an op-ed in the Guardian, former U.S.
Latvia's data protection authority, Data State Inspectorate, issued an advisory for protecting children's data when posting academic accomplishments obtained from school information systems.
As part of its 25th anniversary, the IAPP will celebrate 25 trailblazing innovators and 25 defining moments in the last quarter century that helped establish the privacy and digital governance profession. This week, we celebrate founding IAPP board member and current Future of Privacy Forum CEO Jules Polonetsky, CIPP/US, who was part of the first wave of chief privacy officers when he became CPO of advertising technology firm DoubleClick in 2000.
A group of U.S. senators on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence sent a letter to the White House expressing "grave concern" about potential privacy and national security risks posed by the recently created Department of Government Efficiency. IAPP Editorial Director Jedidiah Bracy recaps the latest on this developing story.Full story
The European Data Protection Board will address the ongoing data protection concerns around the DeepSeek AI chatbot at the board's 11 Feb. plenary session. Several EDPB members have current probes or requests for information out to the China-based AI startup.
The European Commission published AI Act guidelines on "practical application of the legal concept" for defining AI systems. The Commission noted the nonbinding guidance "aims to assist providers and other relevant persons in determining whether a software system constitutes an AI system to facilitate the effective application of the rules." The guidelines come as the first AI Act provisions took effect 2 Feb.
The Court of Justice of the European Union Advocate General Dean Spielman issued a nonbinding opinion determining not all pseudonymized data is personal data, meaning EU General Data Protection Regulation application can not be assumed.