Dan Cooper and Sebastian Vos of Covington and Burling provide a recap of some of the developments in December, with links to more information on each. You can find it at InsidePrivacy.
Category: Non-U.S.
India’s Draft Data Protection Bill Moves Closer to Passage
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: Stephen Mathias from Kochhar & Co. reports that on December 16, 2021, the Indian Joint Parliamentary Committee (the “JPC”) submitted its report on India’s draft Data Protection Bill (the “Bill”). The Bill is now likely to be passed by Parliament in its next session, beginning in February 2022, and likely will…
Polish leader admits country bought powerful Israeli spyware
Vanessa Gera of AP reports: Poland’s most powerful politician has acknowledged that the country bought advanced spyware from the Israeli surveillance software maker NSO Group, but denied that it was being used to target his political opponents. Read more at ABC.
Cookies: the CNIL sanctions GOOGLE up to 150 million euros and FACEBOOK up to 60 million euros for non-compliance with the law
The following is a Google machine translation of a CNIL press release: The restricted formation, body of the CNIL responsible for pronouncing sanctions, noted, following checks, that the websites facebook.com, google.fr and youtube.com offer a button to immediately accept cookies. On the other hand, they do not set up an equivalent solution (button or other) to…