Big data companies like Google and Facebook are now facing increased scrutiny about the use of massive amounts of personal data in the digital ad marketplace.
Google and other big data companies face increased scrutiny
UK Information Commissioner Updates Paper on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Protection
On 1 March 2017, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published a paper on big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning and data protection (replacing its early paper published in 2014). Although the paper is described as a “discussion paper”, it makes a number of recommendations that those involved in big data projects would be well advised to incorporate into their projects, and it firmly rejects suggestions that either the existing data protection framework or the GDPR cannot be applied in this context.
The paper works through the implications of big data against the core data protection principles; it then discusses compliance tools that can be used to meet those implications (including a useful analysis of how its current Privacy Impact Assessment Code of Practice is still fit for purpose under the GDPR and for big data projects). It concludes with six key recommendations.
Big data: French and German authorities explore antitrust issues
On May 10, 2016, the French and German antitrust authorities published a joint study on competition law and the collection and use of data, particularly so-called big data (the Big Data Study). Data protection as such is outside the scope of EU competition laws, but antitrust authorities have considered the significance of data on a number of occasions, often in the context of merger reviews such as the EU Commission’s Facebook/WhatsApp case.
FTC Commissioner Julie Brill to lead a privacy roundtable at Norton Rose Fulbright
On January 30, 2015, Norton Rose Fulbright New York City office will host FTC Commissioner Julie Brill for a privacy roundtable.
As part of the IAPP KnowledgeNet lecture series, Commissioner Brill will address privacy topics that will be in focus