Hiroto Imai and Mizue Kakiuchi of Hogan Lovells write: On 3 August 2021, Japan’s Personal Information Protection Commission (“PPC”) published its long-awaited Guidelines on amendments enacted in 2020 (the “2020 amendments”) to Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information (the “APPI”). While many of the 2020 amendments do not take effect until 1 April 2022,…
Category: Non-U.S.
Privacy commissioner says N.S. Health violated privacy of program participants
Jack Julian reports: The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner has ruled Nova Scotia Health violated the privacy of participants in the province’s Driving While Impaired program. A privacy expert in Halifax says it’s an interesting illustration of the complexity of privacy rules when more than one law can come into play. Read more…
EPIC Joins Call for Privacy Reform from Indian Government
From the good folks at EPIC.org: EPIC has joined with several international privacy and human rights advocacy groups in a statement calling for privacy reform in the wake of allegations that the Indian government used Pegasus to surveil activists, journalists, and opponents. The statement highlights the fundamental right to privacy established under both the Indian Constitution and…
A Chinese university seems to be making a list of LGBT+ students. No one knows what it will do with the information.
Jiayun Feng reports: A leaked document that has been doing the rounds on the Chinese internet reveals that Shanghai University (SHU), one of the key institutions of higher learning in Shanghai, is ordering its schools and colleges to report students who identify as LGBT+ or sexual minorities. The school is targeting anyone who is “non-heterosexual”…