The California Privacy Protection Agency fined data broker Jerico Pictures USD46,000 for not meeting data broker registration requirements under the Delete Act. CPPA Deputy Director of Enforcement Michael Macko said the agency will continue its efforts to enforce the Delete Act and "use all available tools, including litigation, to make sure that data brokers aren't operating in the dark."
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CBC reports on a British Columbia police oversight investigation into the WhatsApp chats of current and former police officers, which is being contested by officers who say a law allowing for the search and seizure of their phones violates the Canadian Charter in a British Columbia Supreme Court case. The decision could affect the future of police communications' confidentiality.
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The Toronto Star reports on what people can do if they are getting unsolicited phone calls from Canada's political parties. Those entities are exempt from the Canada's federal privacy laws, something the Information and Privacy Commissioner's Office of Ontario said should be changed in future legislation.
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The Toronto Star reports on what people can do if they are getting unsolicited phone calls from Canada's political parties. Those entities are exempt from the Canada's federal privacy laws, something the Information and Privacy Commissioner's Office of Ontario said should be changed in future legislation.
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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 highlight Ann Cavoukian's contributions to the privacy profession through her groundbreaking introduction of the privacy-by-design concept.
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The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Nova Scotia said the provincial government failed to have sufficient security and information protection practices in place after it sustained a cybersecurity attack on its file transfer system. The commissioner made eight recommendations on how the government could respond better and strengthen its protections.
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IAPP Managing Director, Europe, Isabelle Roccia, CIPP/E, shares details from a DigitalEurope conference attended by members of the tech industry, including Director-General of DG Connect Robert Viola's statement that there will be "no new regulation coming from DG Connect in the next five years." Roccia said, "DG Connect is the digital policy arm of the European Commission, so such a statement in a room full of policy wonks was met with a mix of surprised gasps and doubtful smiles." However, it is in line with the European Commission's work program for 2025.
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Technology companies, including the social platform X and Google, claimed they could remove themselves from the U.K. due to enforcement of digital regulations such as the Online Safety Act, the Telegraph reports. Google said the U.K.'s enforcement plans risk "stifling UK growth, and consequently affecting the quality and variety of services offered to UK users, by potentially driving services with low UK revenue out of the UK."
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Bird & Bird Privacy and Data Protection Associate Mihnea Dumitrascu discussed France's new age verification standards and "strict technical requirements" for access to adult content. Covered websites are not allowed to display content until a user's age has been verified and verification systems must be trained on diversified datasets. Solutions must have safeguards to prevent false positives or prerecorded images to circumvent the system.
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IAB Australia CEO Gai Le Roy said regulators should work to limit data breaches and educate consumers about protecting their data to strengthen the digital economy, MediaWeek reports. Le Roy said the more regulators and agencies can "do to limit breaches, to have privacy-enhancing technology in terms of data, the better it will be for all of us."
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