Privacy Tracker

In this week’s Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, read about a delay to Singapore’s Cybersecurity Bill; the U.K. Data Protection Bill 2017, which was introduced in the House of Lords; Germany’s new law implementing the EU General Data Protection Regulation; and the Council of the European U...

The EU data protection reform package consisting of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (in German: Datenschutz-Grundverordnung, DS-GVO) and the Police Directive (EU) 2016/680 (in German: Datenschutzrichtlinie für Polizei und Strafjustiz) will be implemented in Germany essentially b...

The recent data breach of Equifax, one of the “Big Three” credit reporting agencies, throws into stark relief the risks inherent in major compilations of consumer data. Given the renewed national focus on consumer data harms, it is worthwhile to take a closer look at a case that may be central to th...

With summer holidays over and only eight months remaining in the two-year enforcement grace period, U.S. multinational employers and their European Union subsidiaries have little time to spare before starting to address compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. By May 25, 2018, the ...

The Philippines is one step closer to getting a national ID system. In Chile, a rights group released a decree signed by the president that would require telecommunication companies to retain communications data for two years. Canada’s Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development has rel...

On Sept. 5, the European Court of Human Rights handed down a landmark judgement about privacy and monitoring at the workplace. The court referred to a case of a Romanian citizen named Bogdan Mihai Bărbulescu who was fired 10 years ago for using a work messaging account to communicate for private pur...

The Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada published the draft “Breach of Security Safeguards Regulations” in the Canada Gazette Sept. 2. The draft federal regulations will remain open for comment for a period of 30 days. ISED stayed close to home in developing the proposed...

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 much duplication of operational effort you might avoid as you move toward GDPR compliance and help you focus your efforts. I...

In this week's Privacy Tracker weekly legislative roundup, read about new rules in China requiring online commenters to identify themselves. The Austrian parliament has passed a new Data Privacy Act that aims to align it with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. France's data protection author...