Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: Stephen Mathias from Kochhar & Co. reports that in early August 2023, the Indian Parliament passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (the “Act”), bringing to a close a 5-year process to enact an omnibus data privacy law in India. The Act was ratified by the President of India and will come…
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UK: ICO consultation on the draft biometric data guidance
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is producing guidance on biometric data and biometric technologies. The first phase of this guidance (draft biometric data guidance) is now published for public consultation. The second phase of this guidance (biometric classification and data protection) will include a call for evidence early next year. The draft biometric data guidance explains how…
Three managers picked up; 2 others invited for breaching Ghana data protection law
GNA reports: Three managers were arrested on Monday by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) and the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service for breaching the Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843). The three institutions are Hisense, an electronic goods dealership, Marwako Fast Foods and Agyabeng Akrasi and Co Limited, a law firm….
UK: ICO threatens enforcement action against websites with ‘harmful’ cookie banners
Richard Speed reports: The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has called for an end to website design practices that it claims could harm users. The regulator has singled out cookie consent banners as an example of where it will take action if it believes that consumers are being affected by harmful design. It went on…