On August 7, 2024, after three years of negotiation, the United Nation’s Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes unanimously adopted the Convention Against Cybercrime. The Convention now goes to the General Assembly, where it is expected to be adopted. If ratified by 40 member states, the Convention will enter into force.
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Update: AI Regulation in the U.K. — New Government Approach
In October 2022, the U.K. Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) published its Guidance, Software and AI as a Medical Device Change Programme – Roadmap, setting out how it will regulate software and AI medical devices in the U.K. by balancing patient protection and providing certainty to industry.
Background to the Reforms
The MHRA initially announced the Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) and Artificial Intelligence as a Medical Device (AIaMD) Change Programme in September 2021, designed to ensure that regulatory requirements for software and AI are clear and patients are kept safe. This builds on the broader reform of the medical device regulatory framework detailed in the Government response to consultation on the future regulation of medical devices in the United Kingdom, which recently saw its timetable for implementation extended by 12 months to July 2024.
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Coming Soon to Singapore: Mandatory Data Breach Notifications
Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) issued a statement on March 1 announcing its plan to introduce mandatory breach notifications as part of a set of proposed amendments to the country’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA). The proposed amendments come in response to the PDPC’s recent review of the PDPA in order “to ensure that it keeps pace with the evolving needs of businesses and individuals, and balances safeguarding individuals’ interests and enables the legitimate use of personal data by organisations.” The details of the mandatory breach notification have not yet been made public, but the amendment will likely require organizations to notify the PDPC and affected data subjects when a certain level of breach has occurred.
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Information Governance Gains Traction, Maturity, and Value Proposition: State of IG Report
The Information Governance Initiative (IGI) recently released its third annual “State of Information Governance” report . Highlights include a sharp rise in IG projects underway and a shift toward organizations deriving value out of properly stored data. Indeed, nearly twice as many respondents (176percent of prior-year baseline) indicated that they are extracting business value from their information.
While external factors to include data breaches and data privacy regulations largely drive IG projects, there is mounting internal pressure to reduce storage costs, limit exposure to potential data breaches, and consolidate data. IGI found that respondents overwhelmingly agreed that information governance is an essential component of internal and external cybersecurity.
Below are key takeaways from the report, including respondent results and IGI’s analysis and recommendations.
Recap of Our General Data Protection Regulation Webinar Series
In preparation for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), set to take effect in the EU on May 25, 2018, we have hosted a series of webinars to help attendees navigate the changing data protection landscape. The GDPR is the EU’s most important change in data privacy regulation in 20 years, replacing the 1995 Data Protection Directive, and will affect any company that processes data pertaining to individuals in the EU. Please find more information on the presentations below:
- Overview of Preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): A high-level plan for preparing for GDPR implementation.
- Conducting a Data Inventory and Mapping: The process of conducting a data inventory and mapping.
- Establishing a Data Protection Officer: The requirements and considerations concerning the appointment of a Data Protection Officer.
- Conducting Data Protection Impact Assessments: The requirements and considerations for conducting a data protection impact assessment.
- Determining Your Lead Data Protection Authority: Determining a lead data protection authority and options for companies whose existing structures do not allow them to take advantage of this mechanism.
- Right to Data Portability: Determining the scope of the new data subject right to data portability, when it applies and what it means in practice.
- Legal Bases for Processing: The provisions of legal bases for the processing of personal data.
- Transparency: The provisions of the GDPR transparency requirement and its effects on data subject rights.
- Automated Processing and Profiling: Understanding the automated processing and profiling rights of data subjects under the new GDPR.
- Data Breach Notification: Circumstances in which notification is required and how to implement effective incident response plans.
- International Data Transfers: The key requirements for international data transfers, including actual and potential changes to existing transfer mechanisms.
United States Is First Country to Join APEC Privacy Recognition for Processors Program
The United States recently became the first country to participate in the new Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (“APEC”) Privacy Recognition for Processors (“PRP”) program. Finalized in 2016 and designed to certify privacy compliance for personal information processors within the Asia-Pacific region, the PRP program offers a trustmark certification to processors that demonstrate their capacity to assist data controllers in complying with relevant privacy obligations. According to APEC, the PRP program was created so that (1) data controllers are able to identify qualified data processors to implement data controllers’ data processing obligations, (2) data processors are able to demonstrate their ability to provide effective implementation of a controller’s privacy requirements, and (3) small and medium-sized institutions are able to gain exposure and visibility into a global data processing network. Continue reading “United States Is First Country to Join APEC Privacy Recognition for Processors Program”