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New Dubai International Financial Centre Data Protection Law Comes into Effect

Hunton Privacy

On July 1, 2020, the Dubai International Financial Centre (“DIFC”) Data Protection Law No. 5 of 2020 came into effect (“New DP Law”). Due to the current pandemic, a three-month grace period, running until October 1, 2020, has been provided for companies to comply. The New DP Law replaces DIFC Law No.

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INTERNET BLOCKING IN MYANMAR – SECRET BLOCK LIST AND NO MEANS TO APPEAL

Security Affairs

The list of sites blocked in MYANMAR includes many websites that did not fall under the categories adult content or fake news. In March 2020, The Ministry of Telecommunications (MoTC) issued a directive to all operators in Myanmar with a secret list of 230 sites to be blocked due to the nature of the content; adult content and fake news.

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California Privacy Law Overhaul – Proposition 24 Passes

Data Matters

The law, most of which does not go into effect until January 1, 2023, will substantially overhaul and amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) which went into effect just this year, on January 1, 2020, with final regulations issued just a few months ago, on August 14, 2020. New Rights for Sensitive Personal Information.

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California Consumer Privacy Act Signed, Introduces Key Privacy Requirements for Businesses

Hunton Privacy

The Act will take effect January 1, 2020. If the Covered Business sells consumers’ personal information or discloses it to third parties for a business purpose, the notice must also include lists of the categories of personal information sold and disclosed about consumers, respectively.

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Irish Commissioner Fines WhatsApp €225 Million For GDPR Violations

Hunton Privacy

This fine represents a more than four-fold increase in the €30-50 million fine that was proposed in a draft decision issued by the DPC in December 2020. Instead, the DPC found that WhatsApp should have definitively identified whether or not an adequacy decision existed to support the transfer of specific categories of data.

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5 learnings from the “Meeting the CCPA Challenge” webinar

Collibra

The CCPA officially went into effect on January 1, 2020, impacting over 40 million California residents and thousands of businesses who use personal information (PI) around the globe. Consumers can ask businesses what categories of their PI is being collected. Here are some of the key takeaways we gathered from the webinar.

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European Commission Publishes Draft Data Governance Act

Hunton Privacy

On November 25, 2020, the European Commission published its Proposal for a Regulation on European Data Governance (the “Data Governance Act”). The Data Governance Act is part of a set of measures announced in the 2020 European Strategy for Data , which is aimed at putting the EU at the forefront of the data empowered society.