Denmark's data protection authority, Datatilsynet, and the country's Digital Agency are looking for AI projects to participate in a second regulatory sandbox program. The deadline for applying is 4 April.
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Norway's data protection authority, Datatilsynet, said it is working to incorporate the EU Digital Services Act into the country's legal system. Datatilsynet Director Line Coll said the agency, as a competent authority, will "contribute with our professional knowledge and interpretation of the provisions on what falls within and outside he definition of profiling, special categories of personal data."Â
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Utah Attorney General Derek Brown is requesting a U.S. appellate court to overturn an order blocking enforcement of the Minor Protection in Social Media Act, MediaPost reports. The law, passed last year, contains requirements compelling social media platforms to conduct age verification of users and limit the visibility of minors' accounts. Tech advocacy group NetChoice successfully sued to block implementation of the law on First Amendment grounds.
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The California Privacy Protection Agency will discuss a new draft on data broker regulations during a 7 March board meeting. The draft includes new definitions of access sessions and consumer deletion list as well as changes to registration information requirements.
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IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, offers his take on the latest privacy and AI governance developments in the nation's capital and around the U.S. This week, he digs into how U.S. state attorneys general are allocating funds toward privacy enforcement efforts.
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France's competition regulator, the Autorité de la concurrence, is anticipated to fine Apple for antitrust violations related to its App Tracking Transparency feature for iPhones. The complaint was brought by the authority in 2023 and claimed Apple could "abuse its dominant position by implementing discriminatory, non-objective and non-transparent conditions for the use of user data for advertising purposes."
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The European Commission is preparing a call for evidence on the draft European Data Union Strategy. The Data Union Strategy aims to create a simplified legal framework for businesses and public entities to share data "seamlessly and at scale," while ensuring adequate data privacy safeguards remain in place. The Commission anticipates opening the Data Union Strategy for public consultation sometime in the first quarter of 2025.
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American University Washington College of Law doctoral candidate Natalia Baigorri wrote for Privacy Across Borders on concerns over TikTok's access to large amounts of U.S. consumer information and the ability to potentially share consumer data with its AI systems. With the rise of Chinese AI systems, such as DeepSeek, privacy professionals are concerned various AI platforms' access to consumer data could be used to threaten national security by breaching sensitive consumer or government information.
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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development released a draft AI incident reporting framework. It is intended to help countries adopt a common reporting method while offering flexibility to tailor it to their own AI regulations. The draft framework contains 29 criteria, such as identifying high-risk systems and assessing current and emerging risks.
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Future of Privacy Forum Senior Fellow Vice President for Global Privacy Gabriela Zafir-Fortuna and Senior Fellow Christopher Kuner evaluated how the global AI race is impacting the current global data transfer paradigm. They highlighted the paradox between how AI "requires borderless access to data for the best performing systems and models," while "fundamentally reshaping the international data flows landscape and leading to increased regulatory fragmentation."
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