Despite significant opposition from human rights and business groups, a UN committee has accepted cybercrime treaty language that would allow investigative data to be shared between countries, make extradition easier, and embolden authoritarian regimes to spy on and prosecute citizens. The Biden Administration is reported to approve as well.
South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission fined Meta for collecting sensitive information on 980,000 Facebook users and sharing it with ~4,000 advertisers in violation of the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). This included data on political views and sexual orientation.
There are new laws evolving in SE Asia: Indonesia’s Personal Data Protection (PDP) law is now fully in force; Malaysia has passed changes to its Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) that should come into effect soon; and Vietnam’s Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) is due to be adopted in May.
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.