The final component of Brazil’s Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD) – the administrative sanctions piece – became effective at the beginning of August, enabling the Brazilian national data protection authority (ANPD) to effectively enforce the LGPD.
According to the newly effective provisions, data controllers who do not comply with the LGPD may be subject to the following sanctions, ...
China’s National People's Congress enacted a new law, the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), designed to protect individuals’ personal information online. It will be effective as of November 1, 2021, and is expected to add a long list of regulatory compliance requirements to companies operating in China.
The law requires that personal information will only be processed for a clear ...
China’s Supreme People’s Court, the top judicial authority in China, published guidelines addressing the application of laws on the use of facial recognition technology when handling civil cases. The document provides guidance for courts on how to apply the various rules in the Civil Code, Cybersecurity Law, Consumer Rights Protection Law, E-Commerce Law, and other relevant legislative instruments.
The Supreme Court clarified that ...
Israel’s central bank, the Bank of Israel (BoI), has published a set of requirements compelling commercial banks and credit card companies to disclose a comprehensive list of personal information regarding their consumers’ consumption habits. The information will be stored by the BoI in a designated central database. The BoI had initially requested to receive information spanning the last seven years, ...
Following comprehensive investigations, the South Korean privacy regulator, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), has fined Facebook and Netflix for infringing several provisions of the Korean Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA).
The PIPC fined Facebook about US $5.6 million for six violations of the PIPA, the key one being the collection of facial recognition data without the users’ consent. For ...
In a comprehensive opinion published in response to a governmental draft bill for amending the Police Ordinance (Special Photographic Systems), 5781-2021, the Israeli Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) disapproved the police’s use of facial recognition technologies.
The PPA stated that not only might permanent and systematic monitoring of individuals’ movement lead to the misuse of sensitive personal information, it might also ...
New user? Click here to register