International Report April 2020

International Report - Issue 164

08 April 2020

Overview

Contents

PUBLISHER'S COVER NOTE

• Drivers for privacy law initiatives

COMMENT

• DPAs respond to Covid-19

LEAD STORIES

• Indonesia’s DP Bill lacks a DPA, despite GDPR similarities
  Graham Greenleaf and Andin Aditya Rahman of Assegaf Hamzah & Partners, Indonesia, analyse the Bill’s provisions.
• Finland invests in European cooperation, prepares to fine
  Finland’s DPA’s workload has stabilised after the immediate post-GDPR rush. The first GDPR fines are now in the pipeline. Laura Linkomies reports from Helsinki.

NEWS

• Whim app and personal data

ANALYSIS

• Canada: More enforcement powers?
• Digital Identity in Africa, Middle East
• Facial recognition laws in US and EU
• Gender equality in privacy rights

LEGISLATION

• Dubai to update its DP law
• Iran moves to protect personal data

MANAGEMENT

• IKEA invests in data ethics
• Ethics – escaping the ivory tower

NEWS IN BRIEF

• CCPA enforcement to start in July
• EU issues White Paper on AI
• EU Parliament committee on AI
• Sweden fines Google €7 million
• Telecoms data plan to monitor spread of coronavirus in EU
• Google RTBF fine cancelled in France
• Belgium’s DPA on direct marketing
• Netherlands’ DPA fines tennis association €525,000
• Clearview’s use of facial recognition
• EU GDPR review delayed
• Israel tracks people’s movements to battle coronavirus infections
• Global DPAs: Data protection does not stop data sharing for Covid-19 purposes