Biometric Update reports the Payment & Clearing Association of China introduced guidelines for facial-recognition payments. The guidelines require companies to encrypt facial-recognition data and store it separately from other information, such as bank numbers, according to the original report f...

Compliance with the Brazilian General Data Protection Law has proven to be an essential and complex challenge for organizations. The lack of a data-driven culture, legal uncertainties, low investment in data governance and a growing landscape of cyber insecurity contributes to this complexity. The ...

Compliance with Brazil's General Data Protection Law has been a complex challenge for organizations, explains Banco Votorantim Data Protection Manager Eric Steinbock, CIPM. In this piece for Privacy Perspectives, Steinbock looks at the most pressing issues privacy professionals face to adhere to the...

U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, along with Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., penned a letter urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate alleged improper data sale by financial technology firm Envestnet and its subsidiary, Yodlee, The Wall Street Journal reports. The lawmake...

India’s top banks will soon give consumers access to a considerable amount of their financial data, allowing them to control who sees what and when, the Hindustan Times reports. The “account aggregator” system will be licensed by India’s central bank and offered by banks. Users will be able to log i...