Following the Statement of Objections to Google sent by the EU Commission on April 15, 2015, the French Senate is discussing “search neutrality” amendments. According to James Waterworth, the ‘search neutrality’ amendments would be introduced in the ‘Loi Macron’, an economic reform bill, and they would oblige search engines to avoid discrimination toward their competitors’ services. However, […]
On April 16, 2015, an Irish deputy introduced a bill that would update a previous legislation, the Post Office (Amendment) Act 1951, which protects against harassment via snail mail, telephones and (as of 2007) SMS messages. The proposed amendment would introduce a provision dealing with “offences in connection with public electronic communications networks”. Among other offenses, […]
On February 24, 2015, Argentina enacted a new regulation addressing the use of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras used for video surveillance purposes. The regulation requires data controllers to give previous notice and obtain consent to CCTV related data processing. Previous notice can be given by means of signs clearly informing data subject of the existence […]
On March 13, 2015, the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council (one of the configurations of the Council of the European Union) made some progress on the EU data protection framework and the Proposal for a European Regulation on data protection. The EU Council agreed on a partial general approach (7178/15) on the “One Stop Shop” mechanism and the principles for […]
On February 27, 2015, the Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security of the Parliament of Australia released a report containing 39 recommendations for the Government to change several privacy law provisions: Advisory Report on the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2014. Among others, the Report would require internet providers to store personal data for a minimum of […]
The German Government approved a draft law to improve enforcement of certain data protection law provisions that aim to strengthen consumers’ protection. In particular, the draft law empowers consumers and business associations to commence actions against and issue warnings to companies who impermissibly collect, process or utilize personal data. The draft law, “Entwurf eines Gesetzes […]
On 28 January 2015, the Brazilian government issued a Draft Bill for the Protection of Personal Data (Anteprojeto de Lei para a Proteção de Dados Pessoais). The Draft establishes a comprehensive, European-style data protection framework for the processing of all personal data. It applies to individuals and companies that process personal data via automated means, […]
German data watchdogs met in Berlin on January 28, 2015, to discuss the transfer of data between the EU and the USA. The leaders debated on the validity of the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework in the post-Snowden era. The details of the discussion are available at https://www.huntonprivacyblog… More information is available at http://www.zdnet… The conference’s program (in […]
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The Chilean government has just published an open consultation about its data protection bill. The text of the bill – which is expected to be a “European style” data protection law – will be published soon. More information are available in English here, and here, and in Spanish here and here Follow us on& Like us on
January 16, 2015: “We would like to keep you informed on progress of the amendments to the Federal Law № 242-FZ introducing amendments to the Federal Law “On personal data” and to the Federal Law “On information, information technologies and protection of information” (hereinafter – the “Law”) that has been adopted earlier on July 21, […]