Kurt Wimmer and Gabe Maldoff of Covington and Burling write More than a year after the Government of India’s Committee of Experts released a draft Personal Data Protection Bill in July 2018 (the “2018 draft”), India is one step closer to passing a comprehensive data privacy law. […] The updated Bill retains the core structure of the…
Category: Laws
New Hampshire Bill Would Limit Warrantless Drone Surveillance
Mike Maharrey writes: A bill prefiled in the New Hampshire House would restrict the warrantless and weaponized use of drones by law enforcement. The legislation would not only establish important privacy protections at the state level; it would also help thwart the federal surveillance state. A coalition of four Republicans filed House Bill 1580 (HB1580)…
German Supervisory Authorities Propose Changes to the GDPR
Anna Oberschelp de Meneses, Ulrike Elteste and Kristof Van Quathem of Covington and Burling write: On December 2, 2019, the German Supervisory Authorities issued a report evaluating the implementation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) in Germany. The report describes the Supervisory Authorities’ experience thus far in applying the GDPR and lists the provisions of…
India proposes new rules to access its citizens’ data
Manish Singh reports: India has proposed groundbreaking new rules that would require companies to garner consent from citizens in the country before collecting and processing their personal data. But at the same time, the new rules also state that companies will have to hand over “non-personal” data of their users to the government, and New…