UK Data Protection Bill advances despite warnings on AI, alignment with EU
The UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill has advanced to the committee stage for a line-by-line examination following a…
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UNDP lauds Guatemala’s digital transformation efforts, offers recommendations
Guatemala is on the journey to digitization, but its national digital ID still faces administrative and cultural hurdles, according to…
Malaysia plans 10M digital ID enrollments in Q1 of 2024 amid data privacy fears
Authorities in Malaysia say they hope to have 10 million persons registered for the MyDigital ID within the first three…
Academics lay out principles for rollout of NSW digital ID, face biometrics
A new report from Australian researchers proposes guardrails for New South Wales’ digital ID system and notes the need to…
Pair of personal-health data breaches reported – one involves biometric identifiers
Lawyers defending U.S. companies sued for breaking biometric privacy laws sometimes make comparisons between the large fines businesses face and…
Australian parliament approves ID verification, face biometrics bill with major amendments
A draft legislation that offers vital safeguards for face biometrics and digital ID verification services in Australia has received parliament’s…
History repeats with Kenyan High Court blocking Maisha Namba for lack of DPIA
The lack of a data protection impact assessment has scuttled Kenya’s government’s rollout of the Maisha Namba national digital ID…
Duplicative biometric databases in Nigeria, India face criticism
A database dubbed the National Education Repository and Databank (NERD) put in place to manage a student loans scheme in…
HIPAA trumps biometric privacy law in drug cabinet lawsuit
A rare Biometric Information Privacy Act win for the defense has been recorded in the U.S. state of Illinois. Health…
More than consent needed for legal biometric data use: Spanish regulator
The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has published a guide outlining how biometric data should be used for access control,…
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