International Report August 2023

International Report - Issue 184

01 August 2023

International Report August 2023

Overview

Contents

PUBLISHER'S COVER NOTE

• Commonwealth Model data protection provisions the newest international influencer

COMMENT

• Future prospects for the EU-US privacy framework

LEAD STORIES

• How consistently is the EU GDPR being enforced?
  The European Union’s data rules have built-in consistency mechanisms. After five years of operation, how well are they working and what does the future hold? Tom Cooper reports.
• Texas enacts comprehensive privacy law
  Jorge Ortiz, Nicholas Shepherd, and Lindsey Tonsager of Covington & Burling analyse the law which enters into force in July 2024.

NEWS

• EU-US Data Privacy Framework has finally been adopted
• New EU data laws intend to build on the GDPR
• AI and the metaverse

ANALYSIS

• France: Third parties’ personal datacan be released as evidence
• Facebook Cambridge Analytica: What’s changed?
• Model provisions for DP in Commonwealth countries
• Unlocking the AI paradox?

LEGISLATION

• Argentina’s GDPR-compatible Bill sent to Congress for debate

MANAGEMENT

• Use of AI/Machine Learning to boost regulatory efficiency

NEWS IN BRIEF

• Oregon adopts a DP law
• EU issues metaverse study
• Norway issues a temporary ban on Meta’s behavioural advertising
• Off-line data breaches to fore in Dutch statistics
• Netherlands’ DPA publishes policy paper on cyber and data protection
• UK and US announce ‘data bridge’
• CoE adopts first module of model clauses
• Grenada adopts a data privacy law
• Spotify to appeal fine in Sweden
• CNIL fines Criteo €40 million