According to Bloomberg, Federal Reserve System Chairman Jerome Powell stated that ensuring user privacy is critical for a potential central bank digital currency in the United States. Powell stated during a virtual panel discussion hosted by the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Summit that a digital currency system must also be capable of verifying an...
Employee video monitoring in the workplace has been the subject of recommendations from Datatilsynet, Norway’s authority on data privacy and protection. There must be compliance with EU GDPR and Working Environment Act regulations before cameras can be put in place, according to the regulators. Standards for recording disclosure, storage, and security are laid out in...
The New York Times reports that the Legal Aid Society has launched a class-action lawsuit against the New York City Police Department (NYPD), alleging that the Department maintains an unauthorized DNA database. It claimed that officers from the New York Police Department took DNA samples without the agreement of both suspects and non-suspects by offering...
In a ‘Joint Declaration on Privacy and the Protection of Personal Data: Strengthening Trust in the Digital Environment’ adopted under the French presidency of the EU, 9 countries and the European Union acknowledged the need to protect the free data flow with trust. The nine countries are Australia, Comoros, India, Japan, Mauritius, New Zealand, South...
Set to replace GDPR’s Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), the International Data Transfer Agreement and Addendum have come into effect. Pursuant to Brexit, cross border transfer to and fro from UK will now take place through the Agreement or the Addendum. They also take into consideration the binding judgment of the CJEU, i.e. Schrems II. Find...
The European Data Protection Board welcomes comments on the “Guidelines 3/2022 on Dark patterns in social media platform interfaces: How to recognise and avoid them”. Such comments should be sent May 2nd 2022 at the latest using the provided form here.
Michelle Lujan Grisham, Governor of New Mexico has appointed Annie Winterfield Manriquez as a senior advisor for Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure. The Governor stresses the need for a robust cybersecurity infrastructure in light of rising number of cybersecurity attacks in New Mexico and internationally. Manriquez is an expert who is well known at a national...
The Spanish Data Protection Authority (AEPD) has issued its 2021 Annual Report, according to which privacy violation complaints swelled up by 25% in 2021 as compared to 2020. The report focuses on challenges in relation data protection posed due to the pandemic and the responses to them. Details of fines and penalties imposed on certain...
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