International Report December 2020

International Report - Issue 168

18 December 2020

Overview

Contents

PUBLISHER'S COVER NOTE

• Essential equivalence is a flexible tool to assess adequacy

COMMENT

• All eyes and ears on data transfer solutions – everywhere

LEAD STORIES

• Data transfers after Schrems II: Reflections from the Asia Pacific
  Clarisse Girot of the Asian Business Law Institute, Mark Parsons of Hogan Lovells and Olga Ganopolsky of Macquarie Group discuss practical issues and geopolitical sensitivities.
• China issues a comprehensive draft data privacy law
  Draft PPIL marks a decade of evolution in the direction of a ‘European style’ law. By Graham Greenleaf.

NEWS

• UK data transfers and adequacy

ANALYSIS

• EU Commission publishes new draft Standard Contractual Clauses
• The UK-US Data Sharing Treaty – a welcome recognition of reality
• How are laws and regulators meeting the AI challenge?
• Anonymization: Silver bullet or just a (not quite) modern fairy tale?

LEGISLATION

• California’s CCPA 2.0: Does the US finally have a data privacy Act?

MANAGEMENT

• Norway’s DPA encourages and invites sandbox applications
• Recommendations for better RoPA management in Europe

NEWS IN BRIEF

• Abu Dhabi DP consultation
• France’s DPA fines Google €100 million and Amazon €35 million
• Italy’s DPA fines Vodafone €12 million for telemarketing breaches
• Belgium’s DPA to take down noncompliant websites
• Still no progress with EU e-Privacy
• Ireland DPA fines Twitter €450,000
• EU Commission issues draft SCCs