Kurt Wimmer of Covington & Burling write: As the push for Congress to pass comprehensive consumer privacy legislation increases, Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA) has re-introduced the Information Transparency & Personal Data Control Act, a compromise proposal that contains provisions sought by both parties. This bill would create national data privacy standards and increase the enforcement authority…
Category: Laws
German Court Overturns GDPR Fine, Raises Legal Questions About Fines Against Companies
Lars Lensdorf, Ulrike Elteste, Robert Henrici, Moritz Hüsch, and Nicholas Shepherd of Covington & Burling write: On February 18, 2021, the District Court of Berlin overturned a €14.5 million fine that had been imposed on German real estate company Deutsche Wohnen SE. The Court held that the fine – which was issued by the Berlin…
UK to introduce new laws and a code of practice for police wanting to rifle through mobile phone messages
Gareth Corfield reports: A new UK law will explicitly authorise the “voluntary” slurping of data from mobile phones of crime suspects and witnesses. The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which was introduced to Parliament this week, contains clauses that will allow police and others to extract data from mobile phones if the user “voluntarily”…
Human rights lawyers ask Australia’s ‘hacking’ Bill be redrafted
Asha Barbaschow |reports: Human Rights Law Centre and the Law Council of Australia have asked that the federal government redraft the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020, calling its contents “particularly egregious” and “so broad”. The Bill, if passed, would hand the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC)…