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The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) today released a new policy brief comparing the California 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 […]

[…] (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 […]

[…] 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.  New report […]

[…] 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 […]

[…] outside the U.S. to evaluate the merits of different regulatory approaches. She specifically highlighted the privacy interests of children and the United Kingdom’s recent Age Appropriate Design Code, which includes transparency and data minimization standards. Mr. Erwin also highlighted the need to protect childrens’ privacy, while cautioning that some approaches can result in “privacy […]

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 […]

[…] the emergence of the need for privacy among Europeans to the need for dignity, while for Americans, such a need emerged from the desire to express their freedom. By contrast, cultural practices in communities in other parts of the world may take a different view of privacy, such as the Japanese, who historically regarded […]

[…] with the RED and its Delegated Act. For completeness, we remark that the Delegated Act entered into force in January 2022 and will be enforceable by mid- 2024. A consumer IoT device under the ETSI framework and a high-risk AI system under the AI Act could co-exist if the following conditions are cumulatively met: […]

[…] appear similar to the EU’s “legitimate interests,” but whose scope still remains uncertain. The PDP Bill would have required consent for processing of personal data to be free, informed, specific, clear, and capable of being withdrawn. For consent to qualify as “informed” under the PDP Bill, the data controller would have to provide certain […]