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Update: On Sep 15, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2273, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act. The law will apply to businesses that provide online services, products, or features likely to be accessed by children and broadly requires businesses to implement their strongest privacy settings by default for young users up to the age […]

[…] secrecy claims are not able to prevent individuals from effectively exercising their privacy rights. Panelists discussed issues such as the necessity of disclosing application or software source code when providing “explainability” of decision-making to data subjects, and debated the level of detail necessary in disclosures required under transparency obligations. Ms. Demetzou focused on how […]

[…] 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 […]

[…] the disclosure of personal data held by certain regulated entities (e.g., providers of financial services, medical practitioners), the PDP Commissioner has approved and registered seven Personal Data Codes of Practice, which provide more detailed requirements for entities in certain sectors to comply with the PDPA. These sectors include: insurance and takaful;  banking and finance;  […]

[…] 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, […]

[…] Republic of China. Over the coming weeks, FPF and ABLI will continue publishing these reports, which will inform a forthcoming comparative review paper with detailed recommendations to promote legal convergence around requirements for processing personal data in the Asia Pacific region.  Background on the ABLI/FPF Project In August 2021, ABLI and FPF concluded a […]

[…] 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 […]

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 […]

[…] a common approach of DPAs on this issue: “it is essential that European regulators have a common interpretation of the rules”, since data protection law “intends to promote the internal market”.  In the end, the DPAs are applying findings from a judgment made by the CJEU, which has ultimate authority in the interpretation of […]