Indonesia agreed to grant the U.S. "adequacy" for personal data transfers under a trade deal the White House announced Tuesday, but it's unclear when the decision will take effect, IAPP Global Privacy Policy Manager Luis Montezuma told us Wednesday.
The Digital Trust & Safety Partnership on Thursday announced formal publication of its Safe Framework Specification as an international standard. Joint Technical Committee 1 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) developed the standard (ISO/IEC 25389).
Data-driven innovation can bring important economic, societal and public interest benefits, but it must be handled responsibly, G7 data protection and privacy authorities (DPAs) said in a Thursday statement following their roundtable in Canada. The G7 countries are the U.S., U.K., Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.
A multistakeholder approach to global privacy certification is "critical," Shannon Coe, Global Cross Border Privacy Rules (GCBPR) Forum chair, said Wednesday at an IAPP webinar. The key is incorporating as many common privacy principles as possible into certifications while respecting different approaches, Coe added.
Cross-border data flows are a "supply chain imperative," the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) said in a policy paper Wednesday.
Worldwide interest is growing in adopting the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules (GCBPR) system for international data transfers, the Hogan Lovells law firm reported.
Steps that EU countries are taking to protect data have major implications for the telecom sector, Sean Casey, senior vice president-product management at CSG, a software and services provider, said Thursday during a Mobile World Live webinar. Other speakers said geopolitical considerations are playing a big role in how carriers manage their move to the cloud and regulators are paying more attention to where data is stored.
Congress and the American public have a right to know if UK authorities are asking tech companies to build backdoors into their encrypted technology, a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers said Thursday.
The U.S. government should defend tech industry interests against the UK’s attempt to access end-to-end encrypted data on Apple iCloud, tech associations wrote Thursday in a letter to the Trump administration.
AI offers "immense opportunities" for humanity and society but also poses significant risks to fundamental rights, privacy authorities from Korea, France, the U.K., Australia and Ireland said in a joint statement at this week's AI Action Summit in Paris. They committed to finding a shared understanding of lawful grounds for processing data for AI training in their respective jurisdictions, and to arriving at a mutual understanding of proportionate safety measures "based on rigorous scientific and evidence-based assessments" tailored to a range of use cases.