International Report August 2021

International Report - Issue 172

03 August 2021

Overview

Contents

PUBLISHER'S COVER NOTE

• Data Protection Authorities as enforcers and educators

COMMENT

• The many faces of adequacy

LEAD STORIES

• The meaning of ‘adequacy’: Implications of the draft Korea decision
  Graham Greenleaf analyses what the EU is effectively looking for – it appears that the absence of some of the GDPR elements does not stand in the way of a positive finding.
• EU Commission works to promote free and safe flows
  The EU will use all of the GDPR tools. The expectation is that existing adequacy decisions are reviewed by the end of the year, while new ones are being negotiated. By Laura Linkomies.

NEWS

• EDPB adopts recommendations on Supplementary Measures

ANALYSIS

• International transfers under scrutiny by DPAs in Germany
• Prospects for FTC privacy rules
• Canada leads on applying privacy law to cannabis sales

NEWS IN BRIEF

• Comparative table on the e-privacy Regulation clarifies the trilogue negotiators’ positions
• Study suggests reforms for EU-US data flows
• Italy fines food delivery company €2.6 million
• EDPB adopts Guidelines on Codes of Conduct as a tool for transfers
• Case law digest on transfers outside of the EU
• EU recognises UK ‘adequacy’
• Italy develops privacy icons
• New Zealand Commissioner in line to be UK Information Commissioner
• EDPS and EDPB call for AI facial recognition ban
• New York City: Biometrics privacy law in force
• US: Colorado adopts privacy law
• Luxembourg’s DPA fines Amazon €746 million