On April 18, 2018, the Canadian government published final regulations which include mandatory privacy breach notification, reporting and record-keeping obligations under Canada's federal data protection law called the Personal Information Protection … [Read more] about Canada Publishes Final Regulations on Mandatory Reporting of Privacy Breaches
On April 16, 2018, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre issued a joint Technical Alert (TA), alerting the worldwide cyber exploitation of network … [Read more] about DHS and FBI Issue a Joint Technical Alert with UK Warning Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Attacks
On April 11, Justice Caroline Costello of the Irish High Court referred the Schrems 2.0 case to the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) with 11 questions for the ECJ to answer. Per Justice Costello, the sole issue in the case is whether the … [Read more] about Irish High Court Refers Schrems 2.0 to the ECJ
On April 3, the Hong Kong Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) announced the publication of the “European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016” guidance document. The PCPD explains that the publication was … [Read more] about Privacy Commissioner of Hong Kong Issues a GDPR Guidance Document
The Council of the European Union published a new draft of the ePrivacy Regulation (link here) for discussion purposes on 22 March. This draft aims to facilitate discussions as we are moving towards the final version of the ePrivacy Regulation. As … [Read more] about Council of the European Union publishes new draft ePrivacy Regulation