Shira Schoenberg reports: In 2018, law enforcement officers were investigating five armed robberies and a sixth attempt in Dorchester, Mattapan, and Canton, one of which led to a fatal shooting. The police believed the same perpetrator, with a getaway driver, committed all the robberies, but they didn’t have a suspect. So they obtained search warrants for cell phone data from the towers closest to the robberies,…
Category: Laws
Saudi Arabia Issues New Personal Data Protection Law
Tarek Khanachet, Julie Teperow, and Antonio Michaelides of Covington & Burling write: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has recently issued its first comprehensive national data protection law. The Personal Data Protection Law will enter into force on March 23, 2022 and regulates the collection, processing and use of personal data in the Kingdom. Organizations with…
NZ: December 2021 Insights Report – Privacy Breach Reporting
One year after the Privacy Act 2020 took effect in New Zealand, this report investigates the impact of mandatory privacy breach reporting. Unsurprisingly, breach reporting increased significantly, although currently less than half of entities do report within the mandatory 72 hours timeframe: From 1 December 2020 it became mandatory to notify the Office of the…
Au: Where does the anti-trolling Bill take us, if anywhere at all? Bye-bye Voller?
Alex Tharby and Tracy Cole write: On September 8, 2021, the High Court delivered the landmark Voller decision, dismissing appeals by media outlets against the decision of the New South Wales Supreme Court which held that the news media and users of social media and other internet platforms may be held liable for content posted by others to their…