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The past year saw developments and updates to privacy regulations across the globe-from India's Personal Data Protection Bill to Brazil's General Data Protection Law, according to ISACA. However, only 34% of organizations say they find it easy to understand their privacy obligations and only 43% are very or completely confident in their organization's privacy team's ability to ensure data privacy and achieve compliance with new privacy laws and regulations. In addition to difficulty understanding the privacy regulatory landscape, organizations also face other data privacy challenges, including budget.
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The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is calling attention to the privacy and security challenges that arise as a result of increased deployment of artificial intelligence...
Rapid GenAI adoption is the top-ranked issue for the next two years for legal, compliance and privacy leaders, according to Gartner. "Legal leaders should adapt preexisting, well-established and widely distributed risk monitoring and management practices until new processes can be implemented. For example, they might modify data inventories and records of processing activities of privacy impact assessments to track GenAI usage."
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It may be tempting for organizations to wait and see how regulations develop or hold on for federal-level legislation; the American Data Privacy Protection Act has been introduced to Congress, although it will take a while to see if it has a chance of coming through the legislative process and being passed into law. For organizations with customers in both the US and Europe, there's recently been some good news: the EU has decided that "The United States ensures an adequate level of protection - comparable to that of the European Union - for personal data transferred from the EU to US companies." In principle, this means user data from Europe can flow freely to the US without additional data protection safeguards.