Minimizing the amount of data collected and stored can diminish the risk of data breach litigation and reduce storage costs, a panel of privacy experts said during an IAPP webinar Wednesday.
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) published its Tech Horizons 2025 report, identifying privacy and data protection implications of four emerging technologies: (1) connected transport, (2) quantum sensing and imaging, (3) digital diagnostics, therapeutics and healthcare infrastructure (such as AI-assisted diagnosis) and (4) synthetic media (partly or wholly generated using AI/machine learning) and its identification and detection.
The European Data Protection Board's (EDPB's) Dec. 18 opinion on processing personal data for AI models has "sparked intense debate" because "the more you reflect on it, the more it resembles a Rorschach test -- everyone seems to see what they want to see," civil and human rights group European Digital Rights (EDRi) posted Wednesday.
South Korea’s privacy regulator temporarily suspended DeepSeek on Saturday, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) said Monday.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation expects an "onslaught" of privacy issues in Congress this year, said Maddie Daly, EFF assistant director-federal affairs, in an interview with Privacy Daily. Some of EFF's top priorities, including a national privacy bill, may be "idealistic," but it's still important to push for them, Daly said.
An AI transparency bill introduced in the Maryland General Assembly is overly broad and anti-competitive, tech industry representatives told state lawmakers Tuesday.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) announced an investigation into Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek Friday regarding its privacy practices and alleged violations of the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA).
Privacy and data protection laws are mushrooming, with nearly 150 countries adopting such regulations, speakers said during a Thursday IAPP webinar. There are 144 nations with national data protection measures, covering nearly 82% of the world's population, IAPP said in an updated report.
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.