International Report December 2019

International Report - Issue 162

11 December 2019

Overview

Contents

PUBLISHER'S COVER NOTE

• Buttarelli’s Privacy Manifesto: A warning and blueprint for action

COMMENT

• Global privacy developments

LEAD STORIES

• New era for US privacy laws: California and more
  No US federal privacy law is in sight but keep a close eye on California and rapidly expanding enforcement and litigation risks. By Laura Linkomies.
• DP is central to Germany’s Facebook competition case
  Stewart Dresner reports from Brussels on the rationale for the German competition authority’s decision on Facebook’s abuse of its dominant position.

NEWS

• Global data protection laws
• International cooperation grows
• Albania updates its DP framework
• Buttarelli’s new vision for Europe

ANALYSIS

• Accountability is crucial for privacy

LEGISLATION

• US state data breach laws
• Indonesia clarifies data localization, right to be forgotten
• Advances in South Asian DP laws

MANAGEMENT

• Malta’s GDPR-style law in action
• Where trade goes, so does data: Outlook from BC, Canada

NEWS IN BRIEF

• EU-US Privacy Shield claim settled
• EU GDPR’s territorial scope
• Spain adopts new cookie guidelines
• Code for digital identities in Africa
• Russian data localization fines
• EU DPAs assess EU-US Privacy Shield
• Wiewiórowski appointed new EDPS
• EU consults on DP by Design
• US federal privacy law in Senate
• New proposal expected on e-Privacy
• e-Privacy Reg. conflicts with GDPR
• UN ponders privacy and health data