APAC
- The Advertising Standards Council of India published a white paper on navigating cookie consent in light of new data protection framework.
- Australia’s Online Safety Amendment Act, restricting social media access for children came into force.
- On Data Privacy Day, India’s Press Information Bureau released an explainer highlighting country’s evolving digital governance ecosystem.
- China’s CAC invited public comments on draft Regulations on the Collection and Use of Personal Information by Internet Applications.
- A leading Indian IT services company announced plans to apply for registration as a consent manager under the DPDP Act.
- South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission released a notice of partial amendment to the Personal Information Protection Level Assessment.
- Personal Information Protection Commission of Japan published a draft policy for revision of the three-year review system of the Act on Personal Information Protection.
EU
- European Commission published a summary and individual submissions received in response to consultation on review of the Digital Markets Act.
- CNIL, France imposed fines of EUR 42 million on telecommunications company and its subsidiary for inadequate data security measures.
- Spanish Data Protection Agency published a note analysing the risks of using third-party images in AI systems.
- Data Protection Authorities of Denmark, Norway and Liechtenstein jointly released a notice on personal data transfers to China by a social media platform.
- Italy’s Cybersecurity Agency issued guidelines for incident management under the NIS2 Directive.
- Belgian Data Protection Authority published opinion on proposed amendments to the Economic Law Code to combat unsolicited marketing.
- Iceland’s Data Protection Authority published amendments to the rules on electronic monitoring.
- Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway released a report on deficiencies in ICT activities of an insurance company.
- Netherland’s Cyber Security Centre and Digital Trust Centre announced their merger.
Americas
- New York’s Artificial Intelligence Consumer Protection Act introduced in the Senate.
- The Electronic Privacy Information Center submitted comments to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services on biometric data collection.
- South Dakota introduced legislation to enhance protections for genetic data.
- Bill to amend the Consumer Data Protection Act introduced in Virginia.
- California’s Privacy Agency imposed a fine of USD 62,600 on a capital markets company for failure to register as a data broker.
- Bill on surveillance pricing and addictive online platforms introduced in the Kentucky House of Representatives.
- Texas’s Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act entered into force.
- California law on data broker governing data collection and deletion came into effect.
