U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer praised India’s digital identification system efforts after the U.K. plans to implement its own digital ID system faced pushback, the Financial Times reports. The U.K.’s voluntary ID system aims to provide an easily accessible ID…
The IAPP Research and Insights team published the sixth joint research article with HCLTech in its series examining global AI governance laws and policies by jurisdiction. This installment examines AI governance laws and policies in the EU, including the approach…
As organizations continue to bolster security efforts, agentic AI tools may be able to help streamline compliance with EU General Data Protection Regulation. Lancaster University’s School of Computing and Communications Professor of Intelligent Networks Keivan Navaie wrote companies should swap…
The European Data Protection Board and European Commission adopted the first version of joint guidelines on the interplay between the EU General Data Protection Regulation and Digital Markets Act. The guidelines seek to clarify how designated gatekeepers under the DMA…
In an interview with Euractiv, U.S. Ambassador to the EU Andrew Puzder expressed hope in the “potential” for the EU and U.S. to collaborate on a range of digital technology policy issues. One item was the EU and U.S. coming…
Microsoft is hoping to jumpstart its work in developing its own generative AI systems by pursuing partnerships in the health care industry, The Wall Street Journal reports. The latest update for Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant will reportedly reflect its new…
Norway’s data protection authority, Datatilsynet, said it does not support a proposal introduced by the Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Administration and the Ministry of Justice and Public Security that would allow internet protocol data to be disclosed to law…
A cyberattack on a third party used by messaging service Discord has breached photos of users’ government IDs used by the platform for age verification purposes, the BBC reports. The breach occurred after a third party gained access to Discord’s…
Two teenagers in the U.K. were arrested in connection with a ransomware attack on nursery school Kido after they allegedly posted personal information and pictures of children enrolled in the schools, The Record reports. Approximately 8,000 children were affected by…
The growing use of IP obfuscation tools is “undermining privacy compliance strategies and making opt-out mechanisms and geoblocking nearly obsolete,” Lenovo Senior Counsel for Privacy Lisa Nee, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, FIP, writes. She said a solution for stopping IP…