The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is issuing an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to solicit comments and information that will assist the development of proposed regulations under Section 1033 of the Dodd Frank Act dealing with consumer rights to access financial records.
U.S Rep. Bob Latta (R-Ohio), ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. has re-introduced the “Safely Ensuring Lives Future Deployment and Research In Vehicle Evolution Act’’ or the ‘‘SELF DRIVE Act’’ to regulate autonomous vehicles.
The legislation includes:
Time for a U.S. federal privacy law?
“U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a hearing titled, “Revisiting the Need for Federal Data Privacy Legislation,” at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 23, 2020.
The hearing will examine the current state of consumer data privacy and legislative
“If the cedar trees have caught on fire,” says an old Hebrew adage, “what shall the shrubs on the wall say?”
Denmark data protection authority Datatilsynet suffered a data breach when its own documents, which should have been shredded, were disposed of in the normal wastepaper bin. The agency notified itself of the breach per
A group of UK MPs wrote a letter to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office demanding stronger data protection enforcement.
“It is imperative that you take action to establish public confidence – a trusted system is critical to protecting public health. The ICO has powers to compel documents to understand data processing, contractual relations and the
In the wake of the UK A-Level algorithm fallout, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a report, for public comment, on the Four Principles of Explainable Artificial Intelligence.
“AI is becoming involved in high-stakes decisions, and no one wants machines to make them without an understanding of why,” said NIST
Data Protection Authorities in the German states of Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Hamburg and Brandenburg have launched a large scale inquiry against media websites to examine the use of tracking techniques and specifically whether the cookie banners they apply on their respective websites meet the requirements for a voluntary and informed consent of the
Peter Swire and Kenneth Propp suggest a viable post-Schrems II alternative to address U.S. judicial redress deficiencies in the Lawfare Blog.
“Any future attempt by the United States to successfully address this perceived deficiency in judicial redress … must have two dimensions: a credible fact-finding inquiry into classified surveillance activities in order to ensure protection
Constantine Karbaliotis and Abigail Dubiniecki write on the topic of what Canadian companies should do after Schrems II:
EUobserver prints an op-ed on SchremsII:
“With this decision, Europe is sliding toward a system of data localisation in which European data must stay in Europe. Big companies can likely bear the cost of creating redundant data systems in Europe, and for cloud computing providers that already have data centres in Europe…this decision could bring