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[…] in its revised law. Then Lee stated that when it comes to implementation and interpretation, data protection regimes in the region differ significantly, and countries try to promote harmonization by mutual recognition. With regards to enforcement, she stressed that it is common to see occasional audits and that in certain countries, such as Japan, […]

Entering 2023, the United States remains one of the only global economic powers that lacks a comprehensive, national framework governing the collection and use of consumer data throughout the economy. Congress made unprecedented progress toward enacting baseline privacy legislation in 2022. However, the apparent impasse in the efforts to move H.R. 8152, the American Data […]

[…] Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (AADC), a first-of-its-kind privacy-by-design law in the United States, and the United Kingdom’s Age-Appropriate Design Code. While there are distinctions between the two codes, the California AADC, which is set to become enforceable on July 1, 2024, was modeled after the UK’s version and represents a significant change in the […]

[…] to clarify when and how PETs should be deployed in different scenarios to ensure compliance with privacy laws; and providing tailored advice to lawmakers that wish to promote the use of PETs for the pursuit of public interest tasks and the responsible use of data.  On this note, Gilad Semama noted that PETs seem […]

[…] is going on in youth & education privacy today…What’s one thing that you are optimistic or encouraged about? I am encouraged by the move to age-appropriate design codes in some jurisdictions since it should lead to more products mapping better to the expectations of parents, educators, and children. What’s one thing that you are […]

[…] (Art 5)  This right expresses the ‘principle of transparency’ found under Article 16(2)(a); The right to access and obtain a copy of the data subject’s personal data free of charge, except for certain conditions that require a fee. (Art 7);  A right to rectification in which the data subject may complete, update, or correct […]

FPF’s Youth & Education team is pleased to publish a new policy brief that builds on this first brief by providing a comparative analysis of the United Kingdom’s Age Appropriate Design Code (UK AADC) to the California AADC, which was modeled after the UK AADC. Learn more and download the UK and CA AADC Comparative policy brief here.  […]

[…] India in the global arena. With India assuming the presidency of the G20 in December 2022, the Government’s approach to existing G20 efforts, such as the Data Free Flow with Trust initiative (spearheaded by Japan), will be sharply back in focus. In the past, India has opposed and deferred joining such efforts, on the […]

[…] of the SFRP system. The court found it unreasonable that seventeen unidentifiable “admin” users had unrestricted access to the sensitive information of millions of individuals, while also free to manipulate and/or erase data without any meaningful transparency or accountability mechanisms in place. The court determined that at least 356 search records for individuals whose […]

Yesterday, FPF Senior Director for U.S. Policy Stacey Gray participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) regarding its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPR”) on “Commercial Surveillance and Data Security” (comments start at 1:39:00). Feedback from the public forum is intended to help inform the Commission’s decision whether to proceed […]