Ryan T. Sulkin and Lucas Schaetzel of Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP write: The amended law comes into effect in April and covers new categories of personal information, including personal-related information and sensitive personal information. In June 2021, Japan enacted an amendment to its privacy and data protection law, the Act on the Protection of Personal…
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‘Absolute authority’: Call to halt plan to collect all Victorians’ medical records
David Estcourt and Rachel Eddie report: The Law Institute of Victoria has asked the Andrews government to withdraw a bill, which would centralise the medical records of every patient in the public health system, over privacy concerns and because patients cannot opt out of the scheme. […] Under the plan, patients would have no ability…
France Enacts New Law on Parental Controls
Kristof Van Quathem, Alix Bertrand, and Nicholas Shepherd of Covington and Burling write: On March 2, 2022, following a fast-track legislative process in the French National Assembly and Senate, President Macron of France signed into law a new piece of legislation designed to reinforce parental controls over minors’ access to the Internet (the “Law”) (see…
Facial recognition: Italian SA fines Clearview AI €20 million; Bans use of biometric data and monitoring of Italian data subjects
From Italy’s data protection agency, this press release today: The Italian SA (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) fined the US-based company Clearview AI EUR 20 million after finding it applied what amounted to biometric monitoring techniques also to individuals in the Italian territory. The company reportedly owns a database including over 10 billion…