Asheeta Regidi and Prashant Mali of NewsNine report: In a new rule issued late April, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), and the Computer Emergency Response Team India (CERT-In) asked data centres, VPS and VPN service providers, intermediaries and crypto exchanges to store user data for at least a period of five years….
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Letter to the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics on their Study of the Use and Impact of Facial Recognition Technology
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Daniel Therrien has sent the following letter to the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics to provide information requested during his appearance before the Committee on May 2, 2022. […] Recommended legal framework for police use of facial recognition technology During the appearance, I undertook to provide the committee…
Online Safety Bill to Proceed Through UK Parliament
Lisa Peets, Marty Hansen, Shona O’Donovan, and Tomos Griffiths of Covington and Burling write: On May 10, 2022, Prince Charles announced in the Queen’s Speech that the UK Government’s proposed Online Safety Bill (the “OSB”) will proceed through Parliament. The OSB is currently at committee stage in the House of Commons. Since it was first announced in December 2020,…
UK Announces Data Reform Bill
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On May 10, 2022, as part of the Queen’s Speech, the UK government announced its intention to introduce a Data Reform Bill (the “Bill”). The UK government’s background and briefing notes to the Queen’s Speech state that the purpose of the Bill is to “take advantage of the benefits of Brexit to create a…