In this week's Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, Brazil moves forward with plans to push back enforcement of its new privacy law. Aubin de Perthuis, CIPP/E, and Joanna Tomaszewska wrote about EU General Data Protection Regulation fines being overturned in Belgium and Poland. Gal Omer, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, dissected draft regulations on utilizing Israeli health data for research purposes. And in the U.S., Facebook and Google were hit with class-action privacy suits, while Twitter settled one of its own.
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The Federal Senate of Brazil has passed a COVID-19 bill that includes provisions to delay enforcement of the General Data Protection Law until January 2021. IAPP Country Leader for Brazil Dirceu Santa Rosa has the details in Privacy Tracker.
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Morocco's National Commission for the Control of the Protection of Personal Data has extended the country's facial-recognition moratorium to Dec. 31.
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Google has been hit with a class-action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California over alleged children's privacy violations related to biometric data, MediaPost reports.
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According to Hunton Andrews Kurth's Privacy & Information Security Law Blog, Washington, D.C., has amended its data breach notification law.
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ICYMI
In this piece for The Privacy Advisor, InnovaTech Legal Counsel Aubin de Perthuis, CIPP/E, breaks down why the Brussels Court of Appeal overruled one of the first decisions of the Belgian Data Protection Authority.
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Amit, Pollak, Matalon & Co. Partner Gal Omer, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, provided a full breakdown of Israel's draft regulation regarding the use of personal health information for research purposes in this Privacy Tracker post.
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For The Privacy Advisor, Spaczynski, Szczepaniak i Wspolnicy Partner Joanna Tomaszewska reports on the potential implications of the Polish Regional Administrative Court overturning the Polish data protection authority's first EU General Data Protection Regulation fine.
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ENFORCEMENT
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced it reached a settlement with New Jersey–based Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics regarding the company's falsified EU-U.S. Privacy Shield participation.
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ASIA-PACIFIC
The Australian Privacy Foundation does not support the pending Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (International Production Orders) Bill 2020, which is a precondition to the proposed agreement with the U.S. Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act, ZDNet reports.
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EUROPE
The European Commission announced a public consultation for its road map regarding the scope of its GDPR evaluation.
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The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled supermarket chain Morrisons is not liable for a 2014 data breach by an employee who leaked thousands of staff members’ personal details online, Bloomberg reports.
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US
Marriott was hit with a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland a day after revealing a data breach involving more than 5 million customers, Law.com reports.
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In U.S. District Court papers, a group of plaintiffs argued Facebook’s collection, use and storage of location data is a “duplicitous” privacy violation, MediaPost reports.
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Twitter’s monetization platform, MoPub, settled a class-action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging the company violated children’s privacy through targeted advertising, MediaPost reports.
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A class-action suit against convenience store chain Rutter's in U.S. Middle District Court is seeking $5 million in damages stemming from a data breach, PennLive.com reports.
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