Argentina’s AAPI Proposes Draft Personal Data Protection Bill Argentina’s data protection authority, the Agency of Access to Public Information, submitted a draft Personal Data Protection Bill to the Honorable Chamber of Deputies of the Nation. The proposed draft amends Personal Data Protection Act 25.326. Provisions under the proposed draft include language to facilitate transborder data […]
Category: National Security & Surveillance
Intelligence Feed: May & June 2023
Ireland’s DPC Issues Employee Data Protection Guidance Ireland’s Data Protection Commission announced fresh employer guidance on handling the data of current, former and prospective employees. The DPC said the guidance is aimed at standard data collection, including employees’ names and contact information, but added employers need to also consider nontraditional data like “information on occupational […]
Intelligence Feed: February 2023
Latest Revisions to Colorado Privacy Act Draft Rules The Colorado attorney general’s office released the second set of revisions to the Colorado Privacy Act draft regulations. Changes from the last revisions released in January include tweaks to business requirements for privacy notices, universal opt-out mechanisms, and honoring consumer rights and opt-out requests. With rules for […]
Intelligence Feed: December 2022
India’s Data Protection Bill Expected to Pass Summer 2023 Indian Minister for Railways, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw is targeting July or August 2023 for passage of the proposed Digital Personal Data Protection Bill. Vaishnaw said “sea change over the years” has led to the drafting of the latest bill and prior proposals, […]
Intelligence Feed: November 2022
CPRA Rulemaking Process Enters Final Steps The California Privacy Protection Agency’s approval of modifications to draft regulations and subsequent initiation of a public consultation concerning those modifications mark one of the last steps to what’s become an unexpectedly drawn-out process. Included in the updates to the draft rules was language for consideration of a potential […]
Intelligence Feed: August 2022
Government Agrees to Indonesian Data Protection Authority Indonesia’s House of Representatives and relevant government agencies agreed to the creation of a supervisory authority that will oversee the enforcement of the Personal Data Protection Bill. Authorization for the authority will come through a presidential decree after lawmakers and government agencies debated whether the proposed regulator would […]