Kia ora koutou, Happy new year from Aotearoa New Zealand. It feels good to have 2021 behind us and, while last year was fairly eventful, 2022 looks to be even more so. To help us plan the year ahead, the IAPP released its 2022 Global Legislative Predictions. To summarize my contribution for NZ, 20...

Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications published updated guidance on data protection measures for telecommunications companies. The new guidelines feature revisions to recommendations for pseudonymized data, breach reporting and data transfers. The release comes as a response to the...

When India’s Joint Parliamentary Committee submitted its report on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 to Parliament in December 2021, it reinstated the concept of “consent managers.” The committee went one step further and recommended the term be added to the definition clause of the upcoming D...

Norway's data protection authority, Datatilsynet, announced it was joining the Austrian Data Protection Authority's decision against companies' continued use of Google Analytics over alleged EU General Data Protection Regulation violations. Datatilsynet made the ruling with investigations into two...

The urgency to pass or update privacy law around the world seems to heat up more each year, and 2022 is likely to be a hot one. The IAPP gathered predictions from privacy professionals on data privacy legislative activity in 2022 and compiled them into a white paper to look at the year ahead. Boasti...