Issue 219

EU & UK

  • European Parliament adopted new procedural rules related to EU General Data Protection Regulation enforcement.
  • The EU Advocate General accused the German State Data Protection Commissioner of not taking action when a citizen’s personal data was accessed without consent.
  • OpenAI, Google, and Mistral quickly updated their AI models following Meta’s announcement of the upcoming release of its Llama AI model.
  • European Parliament extended CSAM detection rules until 2026.

AMERICAS

  • US senator said TikTok could have more time to divest under the bill.
  • A procedural vote in the U.S. House to advance legislation to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act failed.
  • DuckDuckGo announced that it will launch a privacy tool that can ask websites to delete consumers’ personal data from “people-search websites”.

ASIA PACIFIC

  • Hong Kong’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data released its investigative report on a cyberattack on Cyberport.
  • The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand released draft rules on how biometric technologies can be used.