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On June 3rd, Connecticut Senate Bill 3 (SB 3), an “Act Concerning Online Privacy, Data and Safety Protections,” cleared the state legislature following unanimous votes in the House and Senate. If enacted by Governor Lamont, SB 3 will amend the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) to create new rights and protections for consumer health data […]

[…] created a climate of fear and distrust towards the AANHPI community that resulted in horrific violence and discrimination. Each year the FBI releases its report on hate crimes statistics, mandated under the Hate Crimes Statistics Act of 1990. However, reporting by law enforcement to the FBI on this information is voluntary, meaning it is […]

[…] or acquired genetic characteristics of an individual; Information about an individual’s physical attributes and biological characteristics; Information about an individual’s sex life or sexual orientation; Data about crimes and offenses that are collected and stored by law enforcement agencies; Customer information of credit institutions, foreign bank branches, payment intermediary service providers, and other authorized […]

[…] a video surveillance system with facial recognition features at its premises in order to detect and prevent the entrance of individuals who had previously been convicted for crimes related to the supermarket chain. The Spanish AEPD found that the controller had no legal basis under Spanish law to conduct such processing and that the […]

On November 27 2022, the President of Tanzania signed the Personal Information Protection Act, 2022 (PIPA) after it garnered unanimous Parliamentary support following its September 2022 introduction during the 8th Parliamentary sitting. The Act’s passage makes the United Republic of Tanzania (henceforth referred to as “Tanzania”) the 35th country in Africa to enact a standalone data […]

[…] prohibit collecting such data. In the absence of a specific requirement or prohibition, the processing of DEI data is regulated by the GDPR. The GDPR provides for ample discretionary powers for the Member States to provide for legal bases in their national laws to process DEI data for monitoring purposes. In practice, most Member […]

[…] the scientists cited that young people of Moroccan origin rarely show up at a certain governmental agency that is mandated to consider alternative rehabilitation measu res for crimes as an alternative to a criminal record. The condition is that these youngsters plead guilty and repent. Doing so is difficult, 10 For example, in the […]

[…] enumerated in the 2018 revisions to the common rule. 186 Proposed Mandated Data Sharing One proposal tabled during the FPF salon dinner conversations, which is intended to amplify the social benefits of data sharing, is to make sharing of data for research something that is mandatory for some or all companies. By contrast, the […]

[…] child.” The UK AADC provides an example of a compelling reason: sharing data for safeguarding purposes to preven t sexual exploitation and abuse online and to prevent/detect crimes against children like online grooming. The California AADC did not adopt the UK AADC’s section on connected toys and devices, which requires that connected toys or […]

In recent years, there has been an uptick in new (comprehensive) data protection laws in the Asia Pacific (APAC). This trend introduces challenges for cross-border compliance, particularly for the industry, legal practitioners, and the community of data protection regulators. As a result of the difficulties, these stakeholders acknowledge that there is a need for greater […]