International Report April 2024

International Report - Issue 188

09 April 2024

International Report April 2024

Overview

Contents

PUBLISHER'S COVER NOTE

• EU adequacy decisions lead “the Brussels effect”

COMMENT

• Balancing privacy with datacrunching AI

LEAD STORIES

• CJEU rules on automated decision-making by credit scoring agency SCHUFA
  A broad interpretation of ‘automated decision-making’ means that a range of automated processes may be caught for both credit scoring and other contexts, such as recruitment. By Katharina A. Weimer of Fieldfisher Germany.
• Israel’s EU adequacy status renewed – a surprise and a relief
  Professor Michael Birnhack of Tel Aviv University analyses the EU’s recent positive adequacy decision on Israel.

NEWS

• Surveillance at the Paris Olympics
• Ontario’s IPC gains power to impose penalties on health sector
• Pay or consent advertising model

ANALYSIS

• Amazon France Logistique fined for excessive employee monitoring
• Navigating Artificial Intelligence rules in the Asia Pacific region
• Caribbean data privacy laws

LEGISLATION

• Türkiye’s DP Act amended

MANAGEMENT

• EU AI Act: Enforcement insights

NEWS IN BRIEF

• EU close to adopting Health Data Space
• Netherlands DPA fines Uber €10 million
• EU Commission soon to issue report on how the GDPR is working in practice
• US restricts access to its citizens’ sensitive personal data
• Florida passes social media ban for under 14s
• The UN General Assembly adopts global resolution on AI
• Court of Justice rules on IAB Europe’s role in real time bidding
• EU Commission hosts safe data flows conference for 'adequate' countries
• European Parliament adopts the AI Act
• EDPS asks for changes to CoE draft AI Convention