New Zealand’s Privacy Act 2020 went into effect December 1. Key changes include: 1) Businesses must notify the Office of the Privacy Commissioner if they lose data or experience a breach; 2) The Act now applies to all businesses that do business in NZ, regardless of where they’re based; and 3) Data can only be collected when need is demonstrated.
Children’s advocacy groups fear loss of access to key data.
Privitar adds Right to be Forgotten and features for safe use of sensitive data The new version of Privitar’s Data Privacy Platform simplifies compliance for Right to Be Forgotten requests. It also is able to retain de-identified data for machine learning and analytics use, if desired.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.