Entries submitted
D1- Entry by: Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (Colombia) (on behalf of the Privacy/Data protection authorities listed below).
Description of the initiative:
The “Transnational Case Map” seeks to identify all the cases that IEWG members have had with transnational implications in the past two years. Such cases can go from Administrative fines from a DPA, Administrative orders or any other kind of enforcement tool that any of IEWG members have used with implications beyond its borders.
By:
- Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, (Hong Kong)
- Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
- Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet)
- Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (Colombia)
Why the initiative deserves to be recognised by an award?
The Transnational Cases Map should be rewarded not only for its innovative way of making information on enforcement tools available to the community, but also for being an ideal tool for teaching personal data protection authorities about each other.
The Transnational Case Map is a constantly evolving product. This is due to the fact that it is intended to be updated year by year with transnational cases. In this way, enforcement tools are being taught, analyse and compared year by year.
The interactive method of the map helps the privacy community to embrace another source of primary information on relevant topics such as:
- Transnational data protection investigations.
- Data protection convergence.
- Cooperation between Data Protection Authorities.
- Enforcement tools.
D2 – Entry by: Information Commissioner’s Office – UK (on behalf of the Privacy/Data protection authorities listed below).
By:
- Information Commissioner’s Office – UK
- Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
Description of the initiative:
Op Zeno was the ICO’s and OAIC’s joint investigation into the processing activities of Clearview AI which could potentially affect millions of individuals globally. The objective was to undertake swift intelligence and evidence gathering about Clearview, its development plans and the issues arising from the broad use of its product and more specifically into law enforcements use; as well as ensuring regulatory efficiencies for Clearview, the DP authorities and the community.
Why the initiative deserves to be recognised by an award?
Op Zeno was a genuine joint investigation which tackled the use of facial recognition technology, through data scraping from social media and other publicly available sites, to offer a match on potential suspects for the law enforcement community without informing individuals. The case is one of the first to tackle complex issues of facial recognition, transparency and extra territoriality as a joint investigation with the OAIC, on such a large scale. The result of which has led to impactful regulatory action, educating the general public and providing International opportunity for Global Data Protection Authorities who may wish to take action in respect of their own citizens that may be affected. It also provides a useful example of how DPAs can effectively collaborate, despite different legal frameworks and time zones, to contribute to an international position on emerging technologies, and shape our global regulatory environment.