To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. European Union (EU) regulators reached agreement on the 23 April 2022 on the new Digital Services Act (DSA). It follows their recent agreement on its sister proposal, the Digital Markets Act, which addresses digital market imbalances in the…
24 June 2022 Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On June 16, 2022, the federal government introduced Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2022 (Bill C-27 or Bill). If passed, the Bill would significantly reform federal private-sector privacy…
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Last week the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform announced a full public consultation of the Freedom of Information Act 2014 (the “FOI Act“), which will inform the direction of travel for FOI policy into the future. Having…
23 June 2022 Lewis Silkin To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. No doubt spurred on by events in Ukraine and growing concerns about the societal impact of the spread of misinformation, on 22 April 2022 the European Parliament and EU Member States reached a…
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The UK Government has published its response to the consultation on its proposed reform of the UK’s data protection regime (which we have provided further information on in our previous legal update available here.) Whilst the UK Government has proposed…
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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Another chapter in the now decade-long saga of Douez v. Facebook was penned earlier this month as a British Columbia Court found Facebook liable for providing advertisers access to users’ personal information without the users’ consent. On June 2, 2022,…
22 June 2022 Dittmar & Indrenius To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became applicable four years ago. Both the number and amounts of administrative fines imposed by the supervisory authorities of EU Member States have been steadily…
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On June 16, 2022, the federal government introduced Bill C-27, Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2022. If passed, Bill C-27 would repeal Part 1 of the Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act(PIPEDA) and replace it with the new Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CPPA). It would enact the Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act(PIDPTA) which creates…
Fin décembre 2021 la Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) sommait une commune de se mettre en conformité s’agissant de sound dispositifs de vidéoprotection et de caméra-piéton utilisée par sa police municipale. Elle lance dans la continuité de cette mise en demeure une consultation publique relatives aux conditions de déploiement des caméras dites…
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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On June 14, the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce held a legislative hearing on the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) titled, “Protecting America’s Consumers: Bipartisan Legislation to Strengthen…
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