Yung Shin Van Der Sype and Wim Nauwelaerts of Alston & Bird write: The European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) has published draft guidelines on the concepts of controller and processor for public consultation. While its predecessor – the Article 29 Working Party – had issued guidance on the concepts of controller/processor (Opinion 1/2010, WP169) back in…
Category: Laws
Here come the Covid Detention Centers
Bill Sardi writes: New York State bill A99 which is now under consideration in the NY State legislature. It allows the state to take an individual “suspected” of being infected or contaminated to a detention center and there compel her or him to receive any medical treatment deemed necessary – including forced vaccination. – See…
Brazil’s LGPD to take immediate effect
Julian Flamant of Hogan Lovells writes: As we have reported, Brazil’s Congress and President have traded proposals over the past few months to delay the effective date of the LGPD in order to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on companies (see our previous stories here, here, and here). Most recently, the Chamber of Deputies voted to approve a…
California Moves Two COVID Privacy Bills Forward
Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: Two bills dealing with processing COVID-19 data in California were referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee. Assembly Bill 660 prohibits data collected, received or prepared for purposes of contact tracing from being used or disclosed for any purpose other than facilitating contact tracing efforts. It also requires the data…