Data Protection in the News - July 2021

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

Debate about the roll out of revised EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), and related guidance about export of personal data considering the Schrems II legal outcome, has featured heavily this month.

The EU formally granted adequacy status to the UK and gave the green light to country privacy regulators to pursue action against organizations regarding transgression in their own countries, as opposed to limiting their activity to coordination of combined action through one EU lead regulator. Tech giants (and others) potentially having to defend on multiple fronts.

In the USA, while Colorado passed its privacy act, there remains speculation that federal legislation maybe may be slipping down the Presidential priority list.

In the world of privacy activists, NOYB launch their campaign targeting organizations that do not have compliant cookie regimes, while the Irish Council for Civil Liberty (ICCL) acted in Germany against IAB Techlab in challenging the privacy aspects of Real Time bidding.

In a month where Google quietly announced a delay in the retirement of third-party cookie support in Chrome to mid-2023, Amazon are facing a $425m fine in Luxembourg over practices regarding the collection and use of personal data. The Luxembourg regulator appears to be super active, with 18 decisions published in June.

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