The Malaysia Personal Data Protection Act applies to all companies operating in Malaysia, as well as persons not established in Malaysia, if they use equipment in Malaysia for the processing of personal data otherwise than for the purposes of transit through Malaysia.
On 29 March 2019, the Belgian House of Representatives appointed a new Data Protection Commissioner and four directors to the executive committee of the Belgian Data Protection Authority (‘DPA’).
These are the first appointments to be made to the DPA since it replaced the previous Belgian Privacy Commission in anticipation of the EU GDPR. This is therefore the first time that executive roles have been officially filled in the context of the regulator’s expanded competence – including the DPA’s new power to impose administrative fines of up to €20,000,000 EUR or 4 percent of an undertaking’s worldwide annual revenues for certain infringements of the EU GDPR.
The updated 2019 Chambers Global Practice Guide for Data Protection & Cybersecurity is available, covering important developments across the globe and bringing expert legal commentary for businesses particularly involved in the life sciences sector. Read More
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019 | 4:00 p.m. EDT / 1:00 p.m. PDT
CLE & CPE Credit Offered
When the California Consumer Privacy Act enters into force on January 1, 2020, it will grant consumers extensive new data rights and place a number of new obligations on companies – obligations that in some ways even exceed those imposed by the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This means that just about every company doing business in California or with Californians will need to take steps to comply with the CCPA, regardless of their GDPR status. Please join us for a discussion that identifies the key questions and issues companies should be considering before the CCPA enters into force on January 1, 2020. We’ll talk through the steps companies should take now to meet these new obligations.
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Singapore may soon mandate data breach notifications and data portability via amendments to the Singapore Personal Data Protection Act, or PDPA. The PDPA applies to all organizations that collect, use and disclose data in Singapore, and the PDPA has extraterritorial effect as it applies to all organizations collecting, using or disclosing personal data from individuals in Singapore (whether or not the company has a physical presence in Singapore).
Even a few short years ago, it seemed unlikely that Congress would enact comprehensive privacy legislation. But a series of high profile data breaches; increasing concerns about data practices, particularly when connected to political micro-targeting; fears about the rise of autonomous, and potentially invisible, decision-making; and the passage of far-reaching foreign and now State privacy laws have all changed the zeitgeist. Congress has taken notice, and, for the past year, Data Matters has been closely following the Legislative Branch’s moves as it a federal privacy bill looks more likely than it has in a generation.
On February 27, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced a record-setting $5.7 million civil penalty against makers of the popular free video creation and sharing app, Musical.ly (now known as TikTok), for violations of U.S. children’s privacy rules. This is the largest civil penalty the FTC has issued concerning violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”).
Christopher C. Fonzone
Washington, D.C.
cfonzone@sidley.com
William RM Long
London
wlong@sidley.com
Edward R. McNicholas
Washington, D.C.
emcnicholas@sidley.com
Alan Charles Raul
Washington, D.C.
araul@sidley.com
Yuet Ming Tham
Hong Kong
Singapore
yuetming.tham@sidley.com
John K. Van De Weert
Washington, D.C.
jvandeweert@sidley.com
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