In the privacy technology vendor marketplace, the last year-plus has been marred by the unavailability of investor funds. Prior years saw venture capital money flow generously to numerous privacy tech startups aiming to streamline prospective customers' compliance efforts. One company that is seemi...

Despite a general slowdown in the availability of investor funds for privacy technology vendors in the last year, Osano is making waves in the marketplace. Building on a USD25 million funding round in August, the vendor is now set to acquire enterprise-level privacy program management vendor WireWhe...

The IAPP published the IAPP-EY Professionalizing Organizational AI Governance Report 2023, which reflects common organizational artificial intelligence governance trends in the privacy context. The report is based on 500 survey responses from 50 countries on AI questions posed in the IAPP-EY Privacy...

Israel's Privacy Protection Authority announced it will require information management and data storage service providers to submit information on data security measures under the Privacy Protection Law. The PPA indicated data security safeguards must confirm compliance to reduce the risk of a data ...

Jamaica's Data Protection Act took effect 1 Dec. The Office of the Information Commissioner announced a six-month grace period for data controllers to register with the office to confirm compliance. The OIC said data controllers can use the grace period to appoint a data protection officer, and are ...