International Report April 2021

International Report - Issue 170

16 April 2021

Overview

Contents

PUBLISHER'S COVER NOTE

• Data breach notification now a component of privacy laws everywhere

COMMENT

• Change keeps DPOs extra busy

LEAD STORIES

• Singapore DP law amendments: Practical implications
  Data breach notification becomes mandatory. By Grace Chen, privacy lawyer, and Dr Clarisse Girot of the Asian Business Law Institute in Singapore.
• Vietnam: Data privacy in a communist ASEAN state
  As Vietnam issues a draft data protection decree, Graham Greenleaf highlights the role of a DPA, data localisation requirements and potential strong fining power.

NEWS

• How Europe is working towards Digital Sovereignty
• Closing the GDPR enforcement gap

ANALYSIS

• Don’t be scared of the dark
• Differentially private algorithms
• DPAs joining networks is the rule

LEGISLATION

• German TTDSG Draft

MANAGEMENT

• Obligations of European Controllers and Processors to register
• Implementing PbD at Coca Cola

NEWS IN BRIEF

• Italy fines Facebook €7 million
• EU and South Korea complete adequacy talks
• DPAs on Covid passports
• Russia amends DP law
• CNIL names top priorities
• Data breach points to Facebook
• The EU ready to intensify talks with the US on a new Privacy Shield
• US Congressional report on the assessment of Schrems II
• Germany: Bavarian DPA offers practical insights into Schrems II
• EDPB and EDPS publish their opinion on vaccination passports
• Denmark legislates on data ethics