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[…] kids at a young age, and to get beyond the common but too simple advice to not share personal information online. Common Sense’s Digital Citizenship Curriculum provides free lesson plans to address timely topics and prepare students to take ownership of their digital lives by grade and topic.  She also emphasized the important role […]

[…] The definitions of these three types of data mirror similar definitions in other Chinese laws or draft laws currently being considered for adoption, such as the Civil Code and, respectively, the Personal Information Protection Law and the Cybersecurity Law. Consistency across these laws indicates a harmonization of China’s emerging data governance regulatory model.  Obligations […]

[…] religion, health conditions, or other highly personal information). In some cases, non-sensitive data can act as a “proxy” for sensitive information (such as the use of zip code as a proxy for race). Data may also be obtained from sources of varying quality, accuracy, or ethical collection, for example: public records, government collection, regulated […]

[…] they were collected. The 2020 Amendments and amended PPC Rules model the pseudonymization process on anonymization, requiring the removal of any (i) description, (ii) unique ‘personal identification code’ (as defined in the APPI), and (iii) information relating to the processing method performed to enable the removal of (i) and (ii) above. The immediate result […]

[…] reforms to strengthen health data governance. These examples were viewed in the context of the WHO Global Strategy on Digital Health. Safeguards for health data sharing to promote innovation while protecting people’s privacy. These may include: 1) ethical review board oversight; 2) de-identification; 3) administrative, technical, and contractual safeguards; and 4) safeguards around cross […]

On February 25, the Indian Government notified and published Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital media Ethics Code) Rules 2021. These rules mirror the Digital Services Act (DSA) proposal of the EU to some extent, since they propose a tiered approach based on the scale of the platform, they touch on intermediary liability, content moderation, take-down […]

[…] be expanded by this legislation, to “provide expert recommendations on this topic help ensure the right balance.” Read Vance’s written testimony on HB 1062 here and watch the testimony here (add YouTube link teed up to the right time code). For more background on Maryland’s Student Data Privacy Council, statutorily created in 2019, click here.

[…] networks are now required to monitor content and “restrict access immediately” of users that post information about state secrets, justification of terrorism or calls to terrorism, pornography, promoting violence and cruelty, or obscene language, manufacturing of drugs, information on methods to commit suicide, as well as calls for mass riots.  Below we provide a […]

[…] be able to shape laws that are technology-neutral and do not have to be updated every two months. According to Paul, while engineers are adept at writing code, code is written for machines that cannot think for themselves. However, the law is written for people, not computers, and policymakers are best equipped for this […]

[…] Law Fellow Katelyn Ringrose.  FPF submitted feedback and comments to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on the Draft Policy Guidance on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Children, which seeks “to promote children’s rights in government and private sector AI policies and practices, and to raise awareness of how AI systems can uphold or undermine children’s rights.” FPF encouraged […]