A paper published by Scientific Reports shows the results of a survey conducted in Germany, India and the U.S. on the potential for a digital payment application. The paper said there are privacy questions, noting, "we find strong reservations with regard to the involvement of multinational tech com...

In Microsoft's "Governing AI: A Blueprint for the Future," Vice Chair and President Brad Smith said questions around artificial intelligence "call not only for broad and thoughtful conversation, but decisive and effective action." The paper offers "a five-point blueprint to address several current a...

In this week’s Global News Roundup, Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined Meta a record 1.2 billion euros for EU General Data Protection Regulation violations. Belgium's data protection authority ruled the transfer of certain taxpayer data to the U.S. is illegal under the GDPR. The European Dat...

Greetings, APAC privacy pros — it seems a month is a long time in privacy. Since my last post in late April we have traversed through Australia's Privacy Awareness Week, closely followed by New Zealand's privacy week. Both were highly successful initiatives of local regulators' offices to raise publ...

European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager is pushing for a voluntary artificial intelligence code of conduct to be stood up in the coming months, Reuters reports. Speaking at the recent EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council summit, Vestager said "within the next weeks" a draft code wil...