Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On April 29, 2022, the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee of China issued a draft version of the Cybersecurity Standard Practice Guidelines – Technical Specification on Certification of Personal Information Cross-border Transfer Activities (the “Guidelines”). The public comment period for the Guidelines closed May 13, 2022. The Guidelines establish the…
Category: Non-U.S.
NZ: ACC review finds privacy policies outdated, poorly understood by staff
RNZ reports: A damning independent review has found ACC‘s privacy policies are outdated, have gaps and are poorly understood by staff. The review, carried out by lawyer Linda Clark and released today, was commissioned by ACC’s board after RNZ revealed a group of call centre staff had shared, and laughed at, client information in a private…
Northern Territory woman to face court for alleged disclosure of confidential information after ICAC referral
Jano Gibson reports: The Northern Territory’s anti-corruption commissioner says his staff “must act with the utmost integrity” after police issued a woman with a notice to appear in court for alleged disclosure of confidential information. Earlier today, NT Police said detectives from the Special References Unit had executed a warrant and seized a 23-year-old woman’s…
UK: Genetic paparazzi are right around the corner, and courts aren’t ready to confront the legal quagmire of DNA theft
Liza Vertinsky and Yaniv Heled write: Every so often stories of genetic theft, or extreme precautions taken to avoid it, make headline news. So it was with a picture of French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin sitting at opposite ends of a very long table after Macron declined to take a Russian PCR COVID-19 test. Many speculated that Macron…