International Report - Issue 175

04 February 2022

Overview

Contents

PUBLISHER'S COVER NOTE

• Privacy laws develop at a faster pace when driven by economic incentive

COMMENT

• What’s new in data privacy in 2022?

LEAD STORIES

• United Arab Emirates federal data protection law in force
  The law will operate alongside – but not replace – the free zone regimes in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. By Dino Wilkinson and Masha Ooijevaar of Clyde & Co.
• Report keeps India’s DP Bill partly within GDPR orbit
  India’s Bill nudges closer to being adopted. Companies will face many new requirements including data localisation and expanded user rights. By Graham Greenleaf.

NEWS

• Austria: Website in breach of GDPR by transferring Google Analytics data to the US

ANALYSIS

• EDPB provides much needed guidance on what is a ‘transfer’
• Australia’s Privacy Act Discussion Paper: ‘All that is solid melts into air’

LEGISLATION

• GDPR shapes Estonia’s data protection law

MANAGEMENT

• Data protection and ethical risks in data scraping: Dispelling the myths

NEWS IN BRIEF

• Belgian DPA fines IAB Europe €250.000
• Finland fines a Psychotherapy Center €608,000
• France fines Google, Facebook
• Thailand DP Act likely to be fully in force in June
• Poland’s DPA orders disclosure of behavioural profile to website user
• Irish DPC finalises children’s privacy guidelines
• Italy’s cookie guidelines in force
• EU adopts adequacy decision with South Korea
• Spain to create an AI regulator
• Zambia, Rwanda and Zimbabwe adopt data protection laws