Nigeria's Data Protection Commission said it will focus on Data Protection Act enforcement and impose tough fines for violators as part of its 2025 agenda, The Sun reports. The commission also plans to increase job opportunities in Nigeria's data protection and privacy sectors as part of its multiyear road map.Full story
The U.K. government introduced a proposal to prevent public services, including hospitals and schools, from paying ransomware groups after a data breach, Infosecurity Magazine reports. U.K. Security Minister Dan Jarvis said the proposal aims to "meet the scale of the ransomware threat, hitting these criminal networks in their wallets and cutting off the key financial pipeline they rely upon to operate."Full story
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission finalized an order against data broker Mobilewalla barring sales of sensitive location data. Per the order, Mobilewalla is banned from collecting consumer data from real-time bidding advertising exchanges and from making false claims over how it collects, maintains, uses, deletes or discloses consumers personal information, as well as how it deidentifies location data.
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Google and YouTube must face some claims in a class-action lawsuit related to alleged "highly offensive behavior," which amounted to intrusion upon seclusion through the collection of children's personal data without their parents' consent, Bloomberg reports.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner announced it launched a compliance tool to help organizations understand the Freedom of Information Act obligations.
U.K. Information Commissioner's Office Executive Director for Regulatory Risk Stephen Almond issued a statement welcoming the government's AI Action Plan and outlining the ICO's priorities under the proposal. "Data protection is essential to realising this opportunity and ensuring that the public can have trust in AI," Almond said.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued legal advisories on how AI use cases apply to California law. In the first advisory, Bonta reminded consumers and organizations developing and deploying AI of their rights and obligations under state consumer protection, civil rights, competition and data privacy laws.
Google is set to release an autonomous AI system geared toward multinational companies to comply with international regulations for processing and transferring personally identifiable data, MediaPost reports.
With 2024 featuring a groundswell of privacy litigation, enforcement actions and a host of new laws and regulations in the U.S., dissecting the key trends and creating "actionable steps" will be key to ensuring organizations' privacy programs are set up for success in 2025, Hintze Law Partner Sam Castic, AIGP, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP, PLS, writes.
U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., announced he will introduce the Extend the TikTok Deadline Act aiming to delay the potential ban on TikTok by 270 days.