Data Privacy Frontline Reports

Data Privacy Frontline Report

Global news from the frontlines of data privacy

Stay up to date on global news and regulatory changes, including legislative predictions, interactive tools, and cutting-edge research and implementation.

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  • EU: The European Parliament Committee responsible for protecting civil liberties and human rights wants the European Commission to reject the proposed EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, stating it fails to create protection equivalent to GDPR.
  • US: In its first action under the Health Breach Notification Rule, the FTC has fined company GoodRx $1.5M for sharing health data with Facebook and Google.
  • Australia: The Attorney-General’s Department has released its Privacy Act Review Report 2022, delivering 116 recommendations that, if adopted, will fundamentally change how Australia deals with data.

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  • EU: The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined Meta €390M over what it deems an invalid basis for collecting personalized data, highlighting a divide between European regulators and raising uncertainty around GDPR compliance.
  • US: The NIST has released its “AI Risk Management Framework 1.0” after 15 months of work, taking a big step toward developing a national AI strategy.
  • Brazil: A senate committee has presented a report on AI regulation and a draft AI law to serve as the starting point for senate deliberation on new AI legislation.

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  • EU: The European Commission has published its draft adequacy decision recognizing the essential equivalence of US data protection standards, hoping for a final decision by July 2023.
  • US: The Department of Health and Human Services has issued a bulletin on tracking technology for a wide range of healthcare companies subject to HIPAA.
  • Australia: The country’s Privacy Act Review is now complete, with the Attorney General likely to release it publicly alongside the government’s response in the first half of 2023.

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  • Australia: The country’s parliament has approved final passage of the Privacy Legislation Amendment Bill 2022, increasing data breach fines and aligning more closely with the EU’s GDPR.
  • EU: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has shared new guidance on anonymizing protected data and deleting commercially confidential information (CCI) when preparing risk-management plans.
  • India: The government has taken a second attempt at establishing a privacy law with the proposal of its Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2022.

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  • US: The White House has mandated new legal safeguards over access and use of personal data by federal agencies, moving closer to resolving the uncertainty around the legality of data transfers between the EU and the US.
  • Africa: Nigeria has released a draft Data Protection Bill outlining a legal framework for personal data protection covering the largest population on the African continent.
  • EU: The European data processing board has approved Europrivacy. It’s the first certification mechanism that demonstrates compliance with GDPR, allowing data controllers and processors to certify their data handling is valid in all member states.

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  • Indonesia: The world’s 4th most populous country has passed its long-awaited personal data protection law, which has been in the works since 2016.
  • EU: The European Commission has published the Cyber Resilience Act, proposing a regulation to reduce vulnerabilities in both hardware and software products.
  • Australia: The government is looking to overhaul privacy laws after a record-breaking telecommunications hack that affected ~10 million people.

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Archiving / Destroying

Are you unleashing the full value of data you retain?

Your Challenges

Do you need help...

OUR SOLUTION

Value Retention

Client Success

Client: Comcast

Situation: California’s Consumer Privacy Act inspired Comcast to evolve the way in which they protect the privacy of customers who consent to share personal information with them.

Evaluating

Are you achieving intended outcomes from data?

Your Challenge

Do you need help...

OUR SOLUTION

Unbiased Results

Client Success

Client: Integrate.ai

Situation: Integrate.ai’s AI-powered tech helps clients improve their online experience by sharing signals about website visitor intent. They wanted to ensure privacy remained fully protected within the machine learning / AI context that produces these signals.

Accessing

Do the right people have the right data?

Your Challenges

Do you need help...

OUR SOLUTION

Usable and Reusable Data

Client Success

Client: Novartis

Situation: Novartis’ digital transformation in drug R&D drives their need to maximize value from vast stores of clinical study data for critical internal research enabled by their data42 platform.

 

Maintaining

Are you empowering people to safely leverage trusted data?

Your Challenges

Do you need help...

OUR SOLUTION

Security / compliance efficiency

CLIENT SUCCESS

Client: ASCO’s CancerLinQ

Situation: CancerLinQ™, a subsidiary of American Society of Clinical Oncology, is a rapid learning healthcare system that helps oncologists aggregate and analyze data on cancer patients to improve care. To achieve this goal, they must de-identify patient data provided by subscribing practices across the U.S.

 

Acquiring / Collecting

Are you acquiring the right data? Do you have appropriate consent?

Your Challenge

Do you need help...

OUR SOLUTIONS

Consent / Contracting strategy

Client Success

Client: IQVIA

Situation: Needed to ensure the primary market research process was fully compliant with internal policies and regulations such as GDPR. 

 

Planning

Are You Effectively Planning for Success?

Your Challenges

Do you need help...

OUR SOLUTION

Build privacy in by design

Client Success

Client: Nuance

Situation: Needed to enable AI-driven product innovation with a defensible governance program for the safe and responsible use
of voice-to-text data under Shrems II.

 

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