Dan Cooper and Anna Oberschelp de Meneses of Covington & Burling write: On May 4, 2020, the Hungarian Government issued a Decree that suspends, during the COVID-19 created state of emergency, the one-month deadline that controllers have under the GDPR to reply to data subject rights requests. The Decree also allows public entities to refuse or suspend…
Category: Laws
SG: Public Consultation on Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Bill
May 14 — The Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) and the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) launched an online public consultation on the proposed amendments to the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) and related amendments to the Spam Control Act (SCA). These proposed amendments aim to strengthen public trust, enhance business competitiveness, and provide…
French DPA Issues Guidance Surrounding Practice of Web Scraping
Jeffrey Neuburger, Stéphanie Martinier, Jonathan Mollod and Mathilde Pepin of Proskauer write: On April 30, 2020, the French data protection authority, the CNIL, published a guidance surrounding considerations behind what it calls “commercial prospecting,” meaning scraping publicly available website data to obtain individuals’ contact info for purposes of selling such data to third parties for direct marketing purposes. …
Pakistan Introduces New Draft of Personal Data Protection Bill
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP writes: Pakistan’s Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication recently introduced a new draft of Pakistan’s Personal Data Protection Bill, 2020 (the “Bill”) and launched a public consultation regarding the same. The public consultation period will end on May 15, 2020. The Bill, which applies to “any person who processes” or “has control over…