Global News Roundup — October 10–16, 2017
The proposed revision of Chile's Data Protection Act
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In January 2017, a group of senators presented before the Chilean Congress a bill that repeals the Chilean Data Protection Act, Law No. 19,628 on Protection of Private Life. Almost a month later, the president of the Republic of Chile also filed before Congress a bill that significantly amends the s...
GDPR matchup: Australia's Privacy Act 1988
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In this Privacy Tracker series, we look at laws from across the globe and match them up against the EU General Data Protection Regulation. The aim is to help you determine how to avoid duplication as you move toward GDPR compliance and help you focus your efforts. In this installment, elevenM’s Tim ...
Global News Roundup — October 2-10, 2017
In this week’s Privacy Tracker weekly legislative roundup, read about the Irish High Court’s decision in Irish Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook and Max Schrems, why the case is important and what to expect next. Also in the EU, the LIBE vote on the ePriavcy Directive has been delayed. In Kuw...
Takeaways from the ECHR employee monitoring decision
A recent ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in Bărbulescu v. Romania, no. 61496/08 affirms the right of employers to monitor their employees’ online activities and electronic communications, subject to certain restrictions. The ruling is aligned with EU and member state law, including the ...
Global News Roundup — September 25–October 2, 2017
Proposals in Switzerland, Luxembourg, the U.K. and Gibraltar aim to bring those countries’ data protection laws in line with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Also, the Irish High Court is expected to hand down its judgment on a case that will determine the future of standard contractual cl...
UK's draft GDPR implementation law, the starting point
On September 13, the U.K. government introduced in Parliament the Data Protection Bill. The main aim of the bill is to implement the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 into U.K. domestic law. However, as perhaps reflected in the length and complexity of the bill, it is also intended to...
Global News Roundup — September 18–25, 2017
In this week's Privacy Tracker legislative roundup, read about Poland's package of draft laws that aims to implement the EU General Data Protection Regulation, plus Romania and Luxembourg have also proposed draft GDPR implementation laws. The head of Bahrain's Economic Development Board announced th...
Poland's draft GDPR implementation law
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Poland's National Legislative Center last week published a package of draft laws that, together with the amended draft of the act on personal data protection, will change the Polish legal framework to be compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
Draft data protection act — a stronge...
What’s past is prologue: Year one of Turkey's Data Protection Law and the path ahead
The first year: Understanding the concepts
2016 was a game-changer year in terms of privacy legislation in the EU and in Turkey. The EU upgraded its 20-year-old data protection framework with a wider data processing scope and stricter sanctions, and Turkey finally managed to put into force its data...
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