As the global drive to regulate Big Tech gains momentum, Asia has become a laboratory for new and at times controversial methods of bringing recalcitrant platforms to heel. Even more importantly, there is growing evidence that regulators in the region are taking their cues from one another, observing what approaches work and swapping notes on how best to tackle the gargantuan task of enforcement.

Asia-Pacific workshops new approaches to the regulation of Big Tech

Jane Horvath joins Two Think Minimum to chat about privacy policy. She shares the serendipitous way she became a privacy expert in the early days at a technology start up. She also discusses the need for a baseline omnibus privacy law in the US. Jane recently became a partner at Gibson Dunn, where she is co-chair of the Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Innovation Practice Group. She built and led Apple's privacy legal team, most recently serving as Apple's Chief Privacy Officer. And before that, she worked in privacy for Google, the US Department of Justice, and Digital City.

Jane Horvath on Privacy Policy

Five years have gone by since the implementation of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation but managers at Meta Platforms aren’t likely celebrate the milestone. On Monday of this week, the tech giant’s Facebook social-media platform received a whopping $1.3 billion fine. The Meta unit was also told to stop transferring personal data from the EU to the US, in what is being described as the most consequential GDPR enforcement action that could be taken. On this week’s podcast, our reporters mull over the impact of the EU privacy regulators’ decision and what the GDPR has meant globally for privacy and data-security legislation.

The GDPR’s five-year anniversary is marked by record penalty targeting Meta

Approaching his second anniversary as the UK’s Information Commissioner, John Edwards believes the culture change he has led since taking the job at the start of 2022 has the regulator ready for an “agile” spectrum of responses to data protection problems.

Sitting down with MLex recently for an extended conversation at the Global Privacy Assembly meetings in Bermuda, Edwards discussed the need for data protection regulators to have a more assertive response to the privacy risks of generative artificial intelligence than they had to the rise of social media business models more than a decade ago. For companies that want to comply with UK data protection law, Edwards said the ICO now has an array of tools and guidance showing that “we’re there to walk with you and to help you” comply with the law.

Edwards believes the UK has a unique and important place on the world’s data protection stage — close to Europe in terms of its privacy law but influenced by the US and the Pacific Rim in terms of its interpretation. “We have potential to act as a bridge between different data protection traditions,” he said.

In cases like Snap AI chatbot, Edwards seeks ‘agile enforcement’ for final three years as ICO chief

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2) Merry Christmas (I don't want to Fight) - Lucinda Williams
3) Funky Christmas - Too Many Zooz
4) Merry Christmas Joey Ramone - El Sancho
5) DJ Play a Christmas Song - Cher
6) Winter Wonderland Reggae -Byron Lee & The Dragonaires
7) Christmas By Myself - Tyler Halverson
8) Feels Like Christmas - Wheatus feat Gabrielle Sterbenz
9) In the Market for a Miracle - Ana Gasteyer
10) Jingle Bells - Count Basie Orchestra
11) The Christmas Song - Bob Dylan
12) Santa Was Seen Flying Through Soviet Airspace - The Philistines Jr.
13) Sorry Mum I was Hungover for Christmas - Bag of Cans
14) Wear a Smile at Christmas - Paul Revere & The Raiders
15) God Rest Ye Merry Billionaires - Martin Kerr
16) Fairytale of New York - The Pogues feat. Kirstey MacColl
17) The Man in the Santa Suit - Neal Halstead
18) Run, Run, Run to Bethlehem - Dave Brubeck
19) The Little Drummer Boy - Miracle Legion
20) Christmas Song (Catskills Version) - The Mommyheads
21) Marshmallow World - Darlene Love
22) Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Vince Guaraldi Trio
23) Driving Home for Christmas - Middle Kids
24) Merry Merry Christmas - El Gato Roboto
25) Home for the Holidays - Cyndie Lauper & Norah Jones
26) Would You Like to Take a Walk? - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
27) Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Tony Bennett

Christmas 2023

Mike Swift

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