Data Protection in the News - April 2021

Expert commentary from Tim Lennard with a roundup of recent data privacy stories
from around the globe

US legislative developments feature highly in the last thirty days in Virginia, Arizona, Florida, Colorado and at federal level with the Information Transparency and Personal Data Control Act, the first federal level activity of 2021.​

In Europe, the UK and EU continue the dance that will determine the expected adequacy decision for the UK enabling the unencumbered bilateral movement of personal data. The UK makes noises about a more progressive UK data privacy regime and its sovereign right to agree other data sharing arrangements, which unsettles the EU.

Meanwhile, the EU and US announce that they will step up efforts to agree a data sharing agreement, but with little conviction or credibility. Most informed sources see significant challenges to any such agreement.

Pragmatic corporate data privacy professionals remain focused on the inching forward of EU ePrivacy legislation and for clarity over approved legal clauses to export data from the EU and the US. Corporates continue to export data anyway, now technically illegally, and wait for the army of lawyers and legislators to get a grip with the real world and catch up.

Away from politics and into the corporate fray, Apple begins to flex its muscles through blocking apps that do not comply with their new (non-cookie) privacy regime. Fun times in Data Privacy!

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