Nigeria's Data Protection Commission issued a highly-anticipated guidance notice 14 Feb. on the "Registration of Data Controllers and Data Processors of Major Importance." Enacted 12 June 2023, Section 65 of Nigeria's Data Protection Act introduced data controllers and data processors of major impo...

Several Australian government officials, including the prime minister and attorney-general, issued a joint statement committing to protecting against online harms. The statement noted the intention to bring legislation in August to reform the Privacy Act. Specifically, officials called out the need ...

IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, offers his take on the latest privacy and artificial intelligence governance developments in the nation's capital and around the U.S. This week, he analyzes the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's privacy authority a...

The IAPP Research and Insights Team analyzed the major data privacy and cybersecurity enforcement actions taken by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission since 2018. In that time period, the FTC issued 67 orders in eight main categories. IAPP Westin Research Fellow Andrew Folks, CIPP/US, and WilmerHale A...

The road to a final EU Artificial Intelligence Act agreement took many twists and turns, some unexpected. For Laura Caroli, this complicated road has been a lived experience while acting as lead technical negotiator and policy advisor to AI Act co-rapporteur and member of European Parliament Brando ...