Natasha Lomas reports: Ireland’s evasive response to a major security complaint filed against Google’s adtech the year the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into application is the target of a new lawsuit — which accuses the Data Protection Commission (DPC) of years of inaction over what the complainants assert is “the largest…
Category: Non-U.S.
Amended Japanese Privacy Law Creates New Categories of Regulated Personal Information and Cross-Border Transfer Requirements
Ryan T. Sulkin and Lucas Schaetzel of Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP write: The amended law comes into effect in April and covers new categories of personal information, including personal-related information and sensitive personal information. In June 2021, Japan enacted an amendment to its privacy and data protection law, the Act on the Protection of Personal…
‘Absolute authority’: Call to halt plan to collect all Victorians’ medical records
David Estcourt and Rachel Eddie report: The Law Institute of Victoria has asked the Andrews government to withdraw a bill, which would centralise the medical records of every patient in the public health system, over privacy concerns and because patients cannot opt out of the scheme. […] Under the plan, patients would have no ability…
France Enacts New Law on Parental Controls
Kristof Van Quathem, Alix Bertrand, and Nicholas Shepherd of Covington and Burling write: On March 2, 2022, following a fast-track legislative process in the French National Assembly and Senate, President Macron of France signed into law a new piece of legislation designed to reinforce parental controls over minors’ access to the Internet (the “Law”) (see…