In April of this year, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) to establish comprehensive national standards national framework for data privacy in the United States. APRA aims to unify data privacy standards across the country.

Five police officers in Nelson, B.C. have just launched a constitutional challenge in the B.C. Supreme Court claiming that their privacy rights were violated during an investigation into their WhatsApp messages. They were accused of swapping inappropriate content on their personal smartphones.

Ticketmaster acknowledged in May that hackers stole 560 million customers’ data for ransom. In a a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing on May 20th, the company confirmed unauthorized activity. Ticketmaster’s parent company, Live Nation Entertainment, said it had “identified unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database environment.”

Recent privacy concerns regarding Home Depot’s sharing of personal data between 2018 and October 2022 with Meta, which operates social media giants Facebook and Instagram is clearly a widespread issue that has alarmed privacy regulators and the public.