France's data protection authority, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés, said "the year 2023 will be key" for the European Central Bank's plan to develop a digital euro and called for "broad public and democratic debate" on the topic. The CNIL said the European Data Protection...

India's digital lending industry has grown exponentially in the last decade. Now the industry allows consumers to borrow money from peer-to-peer lenders. In India, the Aadhaar identity program was launched in 2009, allotting unique 12-digit identification numbers to billions of citizens. The Aadhaa...

Negotiations on the U.N. cybercrime convention progressed in January, but lingering issues remain, University Grenoble Alps Associate Professor of International Law Karine Bannelier writes in Lawfare. She said, “negotiations were marked by attempts by authoritarian states to transform this ... instr...

In an op-ed for The Hill, Consumer Bankers Association Executive Vice President and Head of Regulatory Affairs Dan Smith said the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's implementation of Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act "could have sweeping implications for the financial services marketplace and c...

In this week’s Global News Roundup, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada reflected on the commission’s annual report. The European Data Protection Board published its binding decision in the Irish Data Protection Commission’s WhatsApp case. U.S. Republican lawmakers introduced another bill to ban citi...