Data Privacy Frontline Reports

• US: There have now been over 3-dozen class action lawsuits launched in California claiming companies are using “grey market” data to match user patterns with personally identifiable information (PII), a process that’s being called “de-anonymization.”
• India: The Indian Parliament’s lower house has passed its Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 (DPDP), obliging companies to delete personal data when the primary purpose is no longer being served.
• Global: Data protection and privacy authorities from 12 countries have released a joint statement addressing data scraping on social media platforms and other publicly accessible sites, acknowledging the significant privacy concerns it raises.

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• Europe: The European Commission has adopted the EU-US adequacy decision, but the new framework is already poised to face a legal challenge.
• North America: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has provided a long list of takeaways from recent cases, including those involving BetterHelp, GoodRx, Premom, and Vitagene.
• Europe: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has finalized guidance on safeguarding personal protected data (PPD) and commercially confidential information (CCI) in clinical trial filings in the European Economic Area.

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• Atlantic: The UK and US governments have announced the Atlantic Declaration. It’s the next step in developing a comprehensive partnership on data and AI and giving organizations in the UK a streamlined route for transferring data to the US.
• Africa: Nigeria’s President has signed the Nigeria Data Protection Bill, 2023, into law, providing a legal framework for protecting personal information and the practice of domestic data protection.
• North America: Canada’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) provides guidance on the practice of data de-identification in a new report of findings from a completed investigation.

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• EU: Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has handed down a record fine of 1.2 billion euros to Meta Platforms Ireland in its data transfer case. This is the largest fine in the 5-year history of the EU’s GDPR.
• Africa: The African Union Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection (the “Malabo Convention”) is set to come into force now that Mauritania has become the 15th state to submit ratification.
• US: The stage is set for Texas to become the tenth state—and the fifth in 2023—to pass comprehensive privacy legislation.

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• US: Indiana, Montana, and Tennessee have now passed state-level privacy laws (with the MO and TN bills passing their respective legislatures on the same day), becoming the 7th, 8th, and 9th US states to do so.
  
• US: Washington state’s My Health My Data Act has received final approval in the House, establishing consumer rights, consent requirements for data practices concerning personal health care information, and a private right of action.
  
• UK: The IAPP has put together a comprehensive summary of the changes proposed in the UK government’s “updated and simplified” data protection laws as well as their impact in comparison to the GDPR.
  

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• UK: A draft data protection reform bill is before Parliament, addressing the UK’s General Data Protection Regulation. An aim of the bill is releasing British businesses from the “unnecessary red tape” associated with the EU’s GDPR.
• US: Iowa has become the sixth US state to pass its own comprehensive consumer privacy legislation. The law is set to go into effect on January 1, 2025.
• ISO: A new international standard for anonymization has been released and will play an important role in establishing best practices for the reuse and sharing of data about people.

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