Hong Kong and the Philippines have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work together to strengthen privacy rights for citizens of each. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data of Hong Kong (PCPD) and The National Privacy Commission (NPC) of the Philippines have established the alliance to ensure more robust data governance, safeguard data subject rights, and to work together on breach investigations, training and education.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission fined Meta $1.3 billion and ordered it to stop transfer of Facebook data collected on European users to the US. It is one of the most consequential rulings since the General Data Protection (GDPR) law was enacted and is the result of an EU court’s ruling GDPR protection was violated. If upheld, it could affect data related to photos, friend connections and direct messages stored by Facebook. Not surprisingly, Meta plans to appeal. It has a 5-month grace period, so states it won’t currently need to... Read More >
The amendments are major revisions to South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), which was enacted in 2011. They include new rights of data portability and a right to refuse automated decision-making as well as rules for offshore data transfer, PI collection and use by offline businesses, and the granting of expanded rights to the country’s regulator.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.