On April 3, the Brazilian Senate approved a Bill of Law with several emergency measures to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. The bill includes a specific rule that postpones the entry into force of the Brazilian General Data Protection Law, the LGPD, until 2021. The bill now moves to the na...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, here are the latest stories on how the outbreak has affected privacy: European Data Protection Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiórowski called for a "pan-European approach" for mobile apps used during the pandemic. The European Data Protection Board is working to prod...

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...

The Verge reports Zoom added privacy and security measures aimed at halting efforts to hack or "Zoombomb" meetings. Among the new policies is a password-by-default safeguard that automatically requires passwords to gain entrance to any meeting or waiting room. Despite the upgrades, Zoom is still exp...

A bill amending Washington, D.C.'s data breach notification law went into effect March 26, according to Hunton Andrews Kurth's Privacy & Information Security Law Blog. The bill revises the definition of personal information and establishes a harm threshold for a breach notification. It also requ...