International Report - Issue 179

05 October 2022

Overview

Contents

PUBLISHER'S COVER NOTE

• Privacy as a developing political issue

COMMENT

• In search of global data transfer solutions

LEAD STORIES

• Proposed US federal data privacy law offers strong protections but only to US residents
  Professor Graham Greenleaf analyses the US Data Privacy and Protection Act from a global perspective.
• G7 countries work towards elements of convergence
  Bridging differences, and emphasising democratic values are key elements for promoting Data Free Flow with Trust. By Dr. Heiko Haupt and Georg Witos of Germany’s Federal Data Protection Commission.

NEWS

• CJEU: DPO contract can only be terminated for ‘just cause’

ANALYSIS

• Adtech just got more complicated
• The rise of ‘neobrowsers’
• Poland: Should free services be provided for sharing personal data?
• Has the EU GDPR been a success?

LEGISLATION

• EU’s new Whistleblowing Directive

MANAGEMENT

• 5G: Friend or foe of privacy?

NEWS IN BRIEF

• Call to halt European police facial recognition system
  
• IAB Europe case referred to the CJEU
  
• California Attorney General settles first CCPA enforcement action
  
• Indonesia passes DP Bill
  
• EU sets up office in Silicon Valley
  
• Ireland’s data regulator to expand
  
• Argentina publishes new DP Bill
  
• Netherlands DPA’s views on GDPR legitimate interests criticised by EU
  
• Ireland’s DPA fines Instagram/Meta
  
• Whistleblower accuses Twitter of data protection failures
  
• France’s DPA fines INFOGREFFE €250,000