It is so hard to get privacy protections for consumers that you might think that if a law has privacy provisions, you’d want to keep them. Not necessarily, as Robert Gellman explains in an opinion piece that opened my eyes — and may open yours, too. How do the privacy protections in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act…
Category: Laws
Updated ICO statement on the judgment of the European Court of Justice in the Schrems II case.
From the ICO, July 27 — Anyone transferring personal data internationally will have been watching the recent judgment of the CJEU with some trepidation. International data transfers, that are so vital for the global economy, suddenly became open to question. The CJEU has confirmed how EU standards of data protection must travel with the data when it…
Government ordered to rewrite German telecom act due to privacy concerns
From PrivSec Report: Germany’s Constitutional Court has told the government to revise the Telecommunications Act by the end of next year as it violates the right of citizens to phone and internet privacy. The law at present is unconstitutional because authorities have too much access to people’s data and the privacy of Germans should be…
Privacy and Personal Information Protection Under the Civil Code of China
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: The Civil Code of China (the “Civil Code”) was approved by the National People’s Congress of China on May 28, 2020 and will take effect January 1, 2021. Part Four of the Civil Code explicitly stipulates that the “Right of Privacy” is one of the “Rights of Personality” covered therein and…