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[…] transfers tools with an eye on the global landscape, as cross-border data flows restrictions are increasingly expanding beyond the EU-US dynamic. If you are doing business in India, make sure to have good data governance and data inventories in place for your operations. Major changes are coming, with the implementation date of the DPDPA […]

[…] Brief analyzing the regulatory strategies and priorities of data protection authorities (DPAs) in Latin America.  We dissected “neurorights,” a set of proposed rights that specifically protect mental freedom and privacy, which have captured the interest of many governments, scholars, and advocates, which is very apparent in Latin America. FPF looked into several countries that […]

[…] In the deployment and use phase, organizations must exercise strict caution when inputting personal information into AI systems, particularly systems that are provided to the public for free, such as AI chatbots. They emphasize the need to comply with APP 6 for any secondary use of personal information, minimizing data input, and maintaining transparency […]

[…] the PPC delivered the opening keynote. In his keynote, Commissioner Oshima shared about the PPC’s regulatory priorities for 2025. These included cross-border data transfers and the Data Free Flow with Trust initiative, as well as further collaboration with the G7 DPAs and bilaterally with various international regulators.  Following the keynote, Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna, Vice-President for […]

[…] opt-outs – exceeds the bounds of the Agency’s statutory authority and is in violation of the California Administrative Procedure Act. Separately, while the Maryland Age Appropriate Design Code was drafted to remove any direct requirements to moderate content, the law’s risk assessment requirements may still contain “proxies for content” that Ninth Circuit found to […]

[…] emphasized by the IACHR: 599. In any case, the Inter-American Court reiterates that the effectiveness of the right to informational self-determination requires States to provide adequate, swift, free, and effective mechanisms or procedures to process and address requests, either by the same authority managing the data or by another competent institution in matters of […]

[…] the continent. The Malabo Convention was designed to provide a holistic, continent-wide framework to harmonize African data protection policies and promote digital rights, including privacy and internet freedom. Although adopted in 2014, the Malabo Convention did not come into force until receiving its 15th national ratification in 2023. With only 15 ratifying nations of […]

[…] Amendment, laws prohibiting the creation of deepfakes in certain circumstances—such as in the case of election-related content and digital replicas of deceased people—are a violation of constitutionally-protected free expression. For example, in early October a federal judge enjoined a recently-enacted California law that would prohibit knowingly and maliciously distributing communications with “materially deceptive” content […]

[…] Communications Intern On September 28, Governor Gavin Newsom signed California AB 3030, among a host of AI bills. CA AB 3030 amended the California Health & Safety Code and requires specified healthcare entities to disclose the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in provider-patient communications through visual or verbal disclaimers presented before, during, and/or […]

[…] and extraction of certain information from webpages might contain personal data, including sensitive categories of personal data, which could “carry peculiar risks for the fundamental rights and freedoms” of individuals.   Processing of publicly available personal data would not be subject to obligations under the DPDPA to the extent that any personal data contained in […]