U.S. Congresswoman Decries TikTok Ban According to The Hill, not all U.S. legislators are ready to ban TikTok, despite recent hearings that have placed the social media company’s CEO, Shou Zi Chew in the hot seat. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)…
A new form of technology has hit the data governance market—synthetic data generation. Adweek states synthetic data is used “to retain the statistical and behavioral aspects of real data sets without compromising the privacy of those individuals from which the…
Pennsylvania businesses have a little more than a month to comply with new data privacy regulations. On May 3, 2023, amendments to the Pennsylvania's Breach of Personal Information Notification Act (BOPINA) will take effect—and they’re a long time in the…
TikTok to Migrate Data to European Servers Last month, both the U.S. House of Representatives and the European Commission ordered their respective staffs to remove TikTok—which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance—from any and all work devices. And late last year,…
Congress Holds Data Privacy Hearing The Congressional Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce held a hearing last week to discuss the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA). Titled, “Promoting US Innovation and Individual Liberty through a National Standard for…
Recently, Forbes released an article titled 13 Tech Experts Explain Essential Facts About Data Privacy And Data Protection, in which “13 members of Forbes Technology Council further explore and explain data privacy and data protection, their differences and their impact…
Governor Newsom, CPPA File Opposition to Federal Preemption This week, Governor Gavin Newsom, along with California Attorney General Rob Bonta, and the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) sent a joint letter to the House Energy & Commerce Committee in advance…
The U.S. Congress House Energy and Commerce Committee is scheduled to meet with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew next month to discuss its fate in the U.S. The hearing is just the latest regulatory scrutiny of TikTok’s ownership by Beijing…
Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework Hits Block The European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs has rejected a draft version of the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework. The draft framework, designed to govern the flow of personal data between…
On November 15, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it would delay the compliance deadline for certain provisions of its updated Safeguards Rule (Rule) to June 9, 2023. The Rule, which was mandated under the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, “requires…
