Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: In the February 2021 issue of the Data Protection Leader, Hunton partner Dora Luo discusses China’s draft Personal Information Protection Law (“Draft PIPL”) (in Chinese) in the context of other comprehensive data protection frameworks, such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The article examines the Draft PIPL in the context of advanced…
Category: Laws
Maryland Joins New York with a BIPA-like Biometric Privacy Bill
Joseph Lazzarotti writes: On January 13, House Delegate Sara Love Introduced the “Biometric Identifiers and Biometric Information Privacy Act” (the “Act”) substantially modeled after the Biometric Information Privacy Act in Illinois, 740 ILCS 14 et seq. (the “BIPA”). Enacted in 2008, the Illinois BIPA only recently triggered an avalanche of class actions in Illinois, spurring other legislative…
Broad New Data Privacy Legislation Supported by Florida Governor and House Speaker
Hayden R. Dempsey and Kate Black of Greenberg Traurig, LLP write: On Feb. 15, Gov. Ron DeSantis and House Speaker Chris Sprowls held a press conference to announce their support for legislation that would significantly increase data privacy and security regulation and create new rights for Florida consumers with respect to their personal information (PI)….
Belgium: ePrivacy proposal in progress: Council agrees on its position to start off ‘trilogue’ negotiations
Heidi Waem, Alizée Stappers and Simon Verschaeve of DLA Piper write: With the ultimate purpose of enacting specific rules regarding electronic communications, the ePrivacy Regulation aims, in particular, to replace the 2002 ePrivacy Directive, detail and complement the GDPR’s general rules, and implement important changes in areas such as metadata processing on end-user devices and…