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In this week's Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, read about Bulgaria's new Cyber Security Act which will regulate the country's National Cyber Security System, the national cybersecurity coordinator and response teams for cybersecurity incidents. In Australia, opposition to the government'...

The Agency of Access to Public Information, the governmental entity tasked with enforcing the Argentine Data Protection Law, recently issued Regulation 132/2018 aimed at establishing a new mechanism for the registration of data controllers and private and public databases. The regulation is applica...

In this week's Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, read about Canada's new breach notification requirements and China's "Circular 151," which allows law enforcement to impose cybersecurity and data protection laws, both of which took effect Nov. 1. The Irish Supreme Court announced it will h...

The data breach notification requirements under Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act come into effect today. Organizations subject to PIPEDA are now required to notify the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, affected individuals and, in some cases, other organizations, o...

In June 2018, in B v General Medical Council [2018] EWCA Civ 1497, a majority of the Court of Appeal reversed the earlier decision of the English High Court and permitted General Medical Council, as data controller, to disclose an expert medical report to a patient pursuant to a data subject access ...

In this week's Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, read about some of the highlights from this year's 40th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, including the creation of a new working group on ethics and data protection in artificial intelligence. Canada's n...

In this week's Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, read about the latest opposition to Australia's proposed Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018. Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission issued Advisory Guidelines for National Registrati...

Singapore’s Data Protection Authority, the Personal Data Protection Commission, recently released its revised "Advisory Guidelines for National Registration Identification Card" and numbers following public consultation. Effective from Sept. 1, 2019, the advisory guidelines provide private organizat...

Increasingly, evidence critical to ordinary criminal investigations is located across territorial borders. Before the rise of cloud computing, evidence of crimes generally was available within the requesting country’s territorial jurisdiction. Today, the content of emails, social network posts, and ...