In renewing his call for a new national data protection framework, Canada’s federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien has warned against including an overly broad standard business practices provision – a concept similar to the GDPR’s legitimate interest basis for non-consent-based data processing.
Canada’s national statistics office has agreed to put two bulk data collection projects on hold after the country’s federal privacy commissioner raised “significant” concerns.
Equator marketing and innovation director Martin Jordan explores the implications of the Google/Fitbit deal.
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Brazil’s data protection law comes into force next year. Inspired by the GDPR, its impact will be watched closely by lawmakers around Latin America. We convened a roundtable in Miami with in-house counsel, data privacy officers and private practitioners to share their experiences of data-rich dealmaking and complying with data protection laws in a region where enforcement levels vary greatly.
The introduction of the GDPR has put Ireland’s Data Protection Commission in the spotlight – but one year on, companies and their advisers are still waiting for the agency to dish out its first fines while they work around gaps in the country’s data protection legislation.
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