Most changes to the U.K.'s data protection regime will ease data flows between the U.K. and EU, but some should be clarified and monitored, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) said Monday.
Whether age-gating measures truly protect children online or just raise other legal concerns is unclear, speakers said during Hogan Lovells' The Data Chronicles podcast Thursday, which focused on age assurance in the U.S. and U.K.
Biometric information is the most personal information, but it holds benefits for society as long as there are guardrails against its risks, New Zealand officials from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner said Wednesday during an IAPP webinar. The discussion included social media bans for children and AI regulation.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) decision last month on the meaning of pseudonymized data has sparked a wave of legal comment because DPAs are split over how possible it is for third parties to retrieve personal information from such data, Hogan Lovells privacy lawyer Etienne Drouard said in an interview.
The U.K. government has no plans to ban virtual private networks (VPNs) despite a surge in users downloading them to circumvent age verification and estimation rules under the Online Safety Act (OSA), a government spokesperson said.
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Friday it identified the two companies and dataset at the heart of a scandal involving the sale of smartphone location data and is investigating. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) accused the DPA of failing to act on its earlier whistleblowing complaint.
The EU Council agreed Wednesday on its negotiating stance on several European Commission proposals, including one extending red-tape reduction rules to mid-cap enterprises, a move that will amend the GDPR.
While consent is a critical component of digital privacy, it's also "one of the most misunderstood," Scott Loughlin, a Hogan Lovells data protection lawyer, said in a video the firm posted Thursday.
While both the EU and U.K. use legitimate interest as a basis for processing personal data, the U.K. Data Use and Access Act (DUAA) has introduced "something interesting" -- a more flexible standard that can reduce administrative burden in some cases, said Daniel Vinerean, managing director of law firm David and Baias, during a webinar Thursday.
Kmart Australia violated customers' privacy by indiscriminately collecting their personal and sensitive data with facial recognition technology (FRT) in an operation designed to tackle refund fraud, Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind announced Thursday.