International Report - Issue 202
03 August 2026
International Report August 2026
Overview
Contents
LEAD STORIES
- PIPEDA reform 3.0: Radical changes to Canadian privacy protection policy in new Bill
Canada’s sweeping privacy reform strips the OPC of oversight of private sector. By Colin J. Bennett, Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria, Canada. - China intensifies its enforcement of data protection
Yan Luo of Covington reports on China’s enforcement of existing data laws in 2026.
NEWS
- New chair of the Netherlands’ DPA: A decade in review and what comes next
- Singapore leads harmonisation and interoperability in Southeast Asia
- Argentina’s top court recognizes consent as a fundamental right
- International lessons: What makes smart data schemes take off?
- EU Digital Omnibus steams ahead
- What should be the role of DPAs in enforcing the EU AI Act?
- OECD on reports on ASEAN data flows: DFFT and CBPRs preferred
- Texas AG’s Netflix lawsuit reflects a broader shift toward design-based privacy
MANAGEMENT
- India’s Consent Manager Framework – a substantive policy innovation
- Italy’s DPA tightens its approach to email tracking pixels
- US Supreme Court: President has power to remove FTC Commissioner
- Singapore regulators provide guidance on AI issues
- G7 DPAs adopt a joint declaration on age verification
- Canada successfully intervenes on Grok chatbots
- Finland’s DPA fines Yango €100 million
- EDPB issues draft guidance on anonymisation and web scraping
- EDPB invites organisations to report GDPR inconsistencies
- EDPB seeks to improve cross-regulatory cooperation
- Amadeus pays €14.4 million to settle a fine by Spain’s DPA
- CJEU: Publishing names of drug-sanctioned athletes is possible
- EU looks into social media ban for under 13s