International Report June 2020

International Report - Issue 165

19 June 2020

Overview

Contents

PUBLISHER'S COVER NOTE

• Successful tracing apps depend on trust built on privacy values

COMMENT

• EU GDPR turns two

LEAD STORIES

• Australia’s ‘COVIDSafe’ law fora voluntary contact tracing app
  Can other countries learn from Australia’s app law? By Professor Graham Greenleaf and Dr. Katharine Kemp, UNSW Australia
• What is the future for marketing and legitimate interest?
  As the Netherlands tennis association is fined €525,000 for sharing the personal data of its members with sponsors, Géraldine Proust of FEDMA reflects on the DPA’s new interpretation.

NEWS

• Finland: Cookie discord
• Privacy and Covid EU contact tracing

ANALYSIS

• A COVID-19 Privacy by Design fiasco?
• Asia: Potential for convergence
• German calculations of GDPR fines
• Brazil: DP rights are constitutional

LEGISLATION

• Pakistan’s DP Bill

MANAGEMENT

• Book Review: The EU GDPR
• DPOs and conflicts of interest
• Belgian GDPR example

NEWS IN BRIEF

• Canada’s DPA sceptical on Covid app
• US introduces bipartisan Covid Bill
• Hungary limits GDPR rights
• Finland issues first GDPR fines
• Ireland takes steps on Twitter
• Dubai’s new data protection law
• Facebook fined in Canada
• Sweden fines government centre
• Greek DPA fines PwC
• Turkey’s DPA fines Amazon
• South Africa’s DP Act delayed
• Jamaica adopts DP law
• Thailand delays DP law
• EDPB adopts draft opinion on Ireland’s monitoring bodies