International Report June 2021

International Report - Issue 171

18 June 2021

Overview

Contents

PUBLISHER'S COVER NOTE

• Privacy rights energised by DPAs and US class action

COMMENT

• EU aims at achieving trustworthy AI in the Union and beyond

LEAD STORIES

• The ‘Brussels effect’ of the EU’s ‘AI Act’ on data privacy outside Europe
  Graham Greenleaf analyses the proposed EU regulation’s GDPR-like territorial reach, and its impact on business outside Europe in relation to the AI systems that they provide or use.
• France: CNIL’s new approach to cookies
  Compliance with new guidelines is enforced efficiently by audits and fines. Alexandra Guérin-François and Judicaël Phan of CNAM University, France analyse the changes.

NEWS

• Ireland prepares Children’s Code
• South Africa and Mauritius develop their GDPR-influenced legislative frameworks
• EU’s new SCCs ease data transfers

ANALYSIS

• Class action may reform mobile apps
• UN acts on children’s privacy

LEGISLATION

• The e-Privacy Regulation
• CLOUD Act and Schrems II
• The path to a federal US privacy law
• Asia’s privacy reform Bills

MANAGEMENT

• Federated learning

NEWS IN BRIEF

• EU publishes new SCCs
• CJEU on non Lead Authority actions
• MEPs’ caution on UK adequacy
• New Zealand issues model clauses
• El Salvador and the British Virgin Islands adopt data protection laws
• Italy issues guidance on DPOs
• GPA appoints reference panel
• Disqus Inc faces €2.5 million fine
• FTC encourages transparency in AI
• Netherlands: €525,000 GDPR fine
• Belgium’s DPA independence?
• EDPB: First Cloud Codes of Conduct
• Amazon faces $425 million fine
• EU Commission issues draft adequacy decision on South Korea
• UK Supreme Court to decide on opt-out representative action