September 2022

Data Privacy Frontline Report

September 2022

Here are key highlights from September 2022 detailing global news and regulatory updates.

Global

  • G-7 privacy regulators met to talk about international data flows—including discussion of data anonymization techniques—and issue post-meeting communiqué

US & Canada

  • US White House hosts discussions on Big Tech harms and brings privacy once again to the forefront
  • US President Biden issues presidential directive to the Committee on Foreign Investment, instructing the Committee to consider businesses with access to sensitive data

EMEA

  • Andorra’s Data Protection Agency announces government-approved decrees to better adapt the country’s law to the GDPR
  • EU’s planned Data Act and the GDPR do not interact well, claim data protection officers
  • EU’s European Commission publishes the Cyber Resilience Act, a proposed regulation to reduce vulnerabilities in hardware and software products
  • EU’s main data protection authorities are “deeply concerned” that their budget will be too small to enforce data protection rights
  • EU’s health data space and what it means for pharmaceutical companies, as explained by a Partner from Pinsent Masons
  • France’s Council of State recommends that the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL), France’s data protection authority, become the national authority for the control of AI systems
  • France’s data protection authority CNIL imposes fine of €250,000 for—among other violations—insufficient anonymization of personal data
  • Rwanda’s National Cyber Security Authority publishes guidance on how data subjects can exercise their right to object
  • Tanzania’s Data Protection Bill to be tabled and signed into law
  • UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) publishes guidance on privacy enhancing technologies—part 5 of its guidance on anonymization
  • UK government provides 12 guidelines for secure data environments and arranges them according to the Five Safes

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APAC

  • Australian government looks to overhaul privacy laws after record-breaking hack
  • China’s new cross-border data transfer security assessment guidelines, as explained by a Partner from PwC China.
  • Hong Kong’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) releases a guidance note on data security measures for information and communications technology
  • India’s government removes draft anonymisation rules from website a week after requesting public feedback
  • Indonesian parliament passes the long-awaited personal data protection law
  • Taiwanese court declares secondary use of medical records unconstitutional

LATAM

  • Colombia’s government issues instructions regarding its binding corporate rules, addressing the transfer of data outside the country

Archiving / Destroying

Are you unleashing the full value of data you retain?

Your Challenges

Do you need help...

  • Unleashing the full value of retained data so they can be put to work safely and responsibly in line with privacy regulation?
  • Defining and implementing effective archival and disposal processes for personal data?

OUR SOLUTION

Value Retention

  • Retain the business value in your data through anonymization.
  • Ensure compliance in your retention & destruction strategy.
  • Maximize the reuse of information by removing what is personal.

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.

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Evaluating

Are you achieving intended outcomes from data?

Your Challenge

Do you need help...

  • Optimizing the use / analysis of data to achieve your organization’s intended outcomes with measured success?

OUR SOLUTION

Unbiased Results

  • Reduce / minimize risk of bias in your data for machine learning.
  • Ensure transparency, fairness, and AI ethics / compliance.
  • Ensure data ethics & compliance in your data models and 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.

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Accessing

Do the right people have the right data?

Your Challenges

Do you need help...

  • Ensuring the right people have access to the right data at the right times?

OUR SOLUTION

Usable and Reusable Data

  • Enable internal access and / or external sharing of data for primary and / or secondary uses.
  • Ensure data are useful and reusable in alignment with FAIR principles.
  • Ensure data have the right level of privacy protection for the use.

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.

 

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Maintaining

Are you empowering people to safely leverage trusted data?

Your Challenges

Do you need help...

  • Maintaining / processing data securely and efficiently to promote data enablement with auditable proof of compliance?

OUR SOLUTION

Security / compliance efficiency

  • Creating synthetic versions of data to be used for innovation / AIML.
  • Applying data minimization principles to reduce your risk exposure.
  • Transforming your data for secondary uses and access.

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.

 

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Acquiring / Collecting

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

Your Challenge

Do you need help...

  • Ensuring the acquisition / collection of the right data under the appropriate consent / contracts to maintain corporate integrity?

OUR SOLUTIONS

Consent / Contracting strategy

  • Developing a consent / contractual framework for collecting / sourcing.
  • Creating a comms strategy for internal / external stakeholders.
  • Ingesting and transforming data safely to earn trust.

Client Success

Client: IQVIA

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

 

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Planning

Are You Effectively Planning for Success?

Your Challenges

Do you need help...

  • Defining a clear data strategy to achieve desired outcomes?
  • Getting it right at the start to avoid costly privacy missteps later?

OUR SOLUTION

Build privacy in by design

  • Building privacy into your data plan / platform / pipeline upfront.
  • Establishing a trusted data strategy (ethics, compliance, privacy).

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.

 

Visit Nuance.com to read the full story >

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