Month: November 2020
Global News Roundup: Nov. 24–30, 2020
In this week’s global legislative roundup, Facebook is asking the Supreme Court of the United States to decide whether tracking…
Global News Roundup: Nov. 17–23, 2020
In this week’s Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, Canada introduced new federal privacy legislation that would provide Canadians with enhanced…
Federal privacy reform in Canada: The Consumer Privacy Protection Act
The federal minority government released draft legislation to update and modernize Canada’s federal private sector privacy legislation. The present law,…
Global News Roundup: Nov. 10–16, 2020
In this week’s global legislative roundup, Bird & Bird Partner Ruth Boardman breaks down the European Commissions’ draft implementing decision…
A look at the extraterritorial applicability of China’s newly issued PIPL: A comparison to the EU’s GDPR
On Oct. 21, 2020, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China released the draft Personal Information Protection…
Top-5 operational impacts of Brazil’s LGPD: Part 4 — DPOs
In the first three parts of this series on the operational impacts of Brazil’s General Data Protection Law, we examined…
Global News Roundup: Nov. 3–9, 2020
In this week’s global legislative roundup, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro approved the board of directors for the newly formed data…
Top-5 operational impacts of Brazil’s LGPD: Part 3 — International transfers
The extraterritorial scope of Brazil’s General Data Protection Law reaches far beyond its borders — perhaps further than any comparable…
Global News Roundup: Oct. 26–Nov. 2, 2020
In this week’s global legislative roundup, IAPP Editorial Director Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP, gave a final look at the pros and…