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Friday 28 January 2022 is Data Protection Day (or Data Privacy Day outside of Europe), which marks the anniversary of the Council of Europe’s Convention 108. To mark Data Protection Day 2022, our Global Data Privacy and Security Team have provided a roundup of key trends and developments across the globe from a data protection perspective as well as looking ahead to what to expect in 2022. There are new laws and developments to keep…

In two decisions on October 6, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has once again provided a strict framework for national surveillance laws applicable to electronic communications and online service providers, and the investigative and intelligence measures related thereto.  This is the second time since July (C-311/18, “Schrems II” which has invalidated the “Privacy Shield”  due to the inadequacies of the US law) that the CJEU has ruled on these issues.…

Launched on June 2, the French mobile tracing app for COVID-19, “StopCovid,” has been voluntarily downloaded by 1.9 million users within three weeks. On June 3, the French Data Protection Authority (the CNIL) published its second opinion on StopCovid, relating to the implementation of the app and the related Executive Decree No. 2020-650 and to the Government’s data protection impact assessment. Following its first opinion of April 24, on the principle of the use of a…