Online Privacy Bill and Privacy Act Discussion Paper: Stricter Enforcement, Online Privacy Code and the Impact for Organisations Handling Personal Information

Two recent publications by the Australian Attorney-General’s Department mark significant steps forward on the long road to reform of Australian privacy legislation: An Online Privacy Bill Exposure Draft introducing amendments to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (“Online Privacy Bill”), which will strengthen penalties and enforcement measures and introduce a binding privacy code for online platforms. … Read more

European Commission publishes final Article 28 clauses

Simultaneous with the European Commission publishing its final standard contractual clauses for the international transfer of personal data (see our blog post here for further information) (the “New SCCs“), they have now published a final set of standalone Article 28 clauses for use between controllers and processors in the EU, also termed ‘standard contractual clauses’ … Read more

European Commission publishes final Standard Contractual Clauses

Seven months after the European Commission published its draft new Standard Contractual Clauses for data transfers between EU and non-EU countries (the “Draft SCCs“) for consultation (see our blog post here (the “Draft SCCs Blog“)), they have now published a finalised set of Standard Contractual Clauses (“Final SCCs“) with little fanfare (available here). It should … Read more

ICO PUBLISHES NEW DATA SHARING CODE OF PRACTICE

Executive Summary On 17 December 2020, the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) published a new Data Sharing Code of Practice (the “Code”). As nearly ten years have passed since the implementation of the previous data sharing code published by the ICO, the new Code has been updated to reflect key changes in data protection laws and … Read more