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[…] the fundamental level, Vietnam’s Constitution provides for an inviolable right to privacy and legal protection of information regarding personal privacy and personal and familial secrecy.  The Civil Code gives expression to these rights in a limited manner by, among others, requiring an individual’s consent for collection, use, retention, or publication of information about that […]

[…] Legislation Amendment (Enhancing Online Privacy and Other Measures) Bill 2021” (Online Privacy Bill) which, if passed, would complement the Privacy Act by introducing a binding online privacy code with which social media and other online platforms would have to comply, or face legal penalties. The status of the Online Privacy Bill is currently uncertain […]

[…] graduate of USC Gould School of Law and a Student Contractor with FPF’s Youth and Education Privacy team. On May 26, 2022, AB-2273, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (ADCA) unanimously passed the California Assembly and moved to the Senate for consideration. California Assembly Members Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) and Jordan Cunningham (R-Templeton) proposed AB-2273, […]

[…] minutiae template, or a voiceprint, can be extracted, and keystroke patterns or rhythms, gait patterns or rhythms, and sleep, health, or exercise data that contain identifying information. Virginia §59.1-571 “Biometric data” means data generated by automatic measurements of an individual’s biological characteristics, such as a fingerprint, voiceprint, eye retinas, irises, or other unique biological […]

[…] workers Distribution of social benefits and tax fraud detection  Automated credit scoring Content moderation decisions in social networks FPF Training: Automated Decision-Making under the GDPR Ready to get an in-depth understanding of the GDPR’s Automated Decision-Making requirements? Register for our upcoming virtual training session on November 9, where FPF experts will cover the critical […]

[…] DPA, or whose DPAs have not published strategic documents in the past two to three years. Since the 2001 enactment of Africa’s first data protection law by Cape Verde, many other African countries have followed suit. Two decades later, 33 African countries boast comprehensive data protection laws. This growth in legislation has received well-deserved […]

[…] an upcoming trend in global regulation, current U.S. regulation of algorithms, pending EU AI regulation, examples of fair AI principles, and more.  “In terms of trying to get an answer, it’s up to scientists to use tools like the line model.” – Dr. Rob van Eijk, EU Managing Director, FPF To view the slides […]

[…] data protection laws being adopted across African jurisdictions. While discussions of data protection and privacy in Africa are still at their infancy stage, they are constantly developing. Cape Verde was the first country to enact a data protection law in 2001. Countries such as Zimbabwe enacted their data protection law as recently as December […]

This post is the third in a four-part series on Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs), providing an overview of the technology, use cases, privacy risks, and proposed recommendations for promoting privacy and mitigating risks associated with BCIs. Click here for FPF and IBM’s full report: Privacy and the Connected Mind. In case you missed them, read […]