CDP Institute

Saudi Arabia’s data authority has published draft amendments to its Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) for comments this month in preparation for changes to go into effect this spring. This includes major changes to make laws more business friendly. The Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) changes include allowing data transfers to jurisdictions that ensure appropriate privacy protection; allowing legitimate interest as a basis for processing non-sensitive data, including for location data; and a right to individual data portability.

A survey by CommX, CommerceNext, Bizrate and Coresight Research of more than 1,000 shoppers revealed, a vast majority were concerned – 70% strongly agree, 87% strongly or somewhat agree – about data use.  Those in wealthy households ($150,000+ income) were most concerned about how their data was stored.

Finland’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner is overseeing the GDPR4CHILDRN project, which has a 2-year plan to develop a toolkit to be used by children’s activity associations and by parents and young people to help educate about data protection for youth. Plans are for the toolkit to be published in Finnish, Swedish, and English, and translated into Russian, Estonian, Somali, and Arabic.

If 90+ US human & internet rights groups are to be believed, the end-year push to get the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) passed by the Senate during the current lame-duck Congress may do more harm than good. The groups sent a joint letter to lawmakers saying they believe the law’s weakly defined protections for ages 16 and under could provide opportunities for censoring information about LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights and also give parents tools to spy on their kids.

It also allows users to limit use of personal information and it ensures Snapchat’s compliance under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

A key aspect is to help businesses sort out nuances of the multiple privacy regulations, including the five new state ones.

The company platform evaluates business privacy programs and aids clients in reaching compliance.