International Report - Issue 173
15 October 2021
Overview
Contents
PUBLISHER'S COVER NOTE
COMMENT
LEAD STORIES
- Saudi Arabia issues its first standalone data protection law
The law will take effect on 23 March 2022, 180 days after its adoption. There will then be a one year grace period to comply. By Dino Wilkinson and Masha Ooijevaar of Clyde & Co. - Spain lives up to its reputation as a tough enforcer
Rafael García del Poyo, Roger Segarra and Samuel Martínez of Osborne Clarke Spain analyse the DPA’s enforcement activity before and after the GDPR.
ANALYSIS
- Limits for controllers’ due diligence
- Switzerland foresees US Cloud Act risk for its data adequacy
- Future for EU GDPR One Stop Shop?
LEGISLATION
- Canada: Quebec’s new ‘Gold Standard’, developments in Ontario
- China’s completed PIPL
- Pakistan’s and Sri Lanka’s data privacy Bills move forward
- EDPB cookie banner taskforce
- Ireland and Italy express concern over Facebook View
- GPEN Sweep on DPA Covid action
- UK law firm brings representative action against Google
- Global DPAs gather online
- UK ICO calls on G7 countries to tackle cookie pop-ups
- EDPS on AML package
- Ireland’s DPA launches TikTok probes
- Italy’s DPA to investigate apps that access phone microphones
- EDPB on South Korean adequacy
- Hamburg DPA: Zoom incompatible with GDPR
- Updates to Privacy Scorebox
- Hong Kong amends DP law
- UK announces adequacy priorities
- EU Data Act would increase B2B access to and sharing of data