Data Protection & Privacy News Roundup 21/22

25/05/2022

In this week's Data Protection & Privacy News Roundup, our champion is Agencia Española de Protección de Datos - AEPD for appearing two times on the list. We also welcome the newcomer from Nigeria: the Data Protection Bureau!

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🇺🇸 Cambridge Analytica scandal: Attorney General sues Mark Zuckerberg

🇪🇺 A new United Nations convention on cybercrime: EDPS - European Data Protection Supervisor opinion

🇳🇬 Nigeria Establishes a Data Protection Bureau.

🇬🇧 Information Commissioner's Office fines facial recognition database company Clearview AI Inc for more than £7.5m (€8,9m)and orders UK data to be deleted.

🇪🇸 Agencia Española de Protección de Datos - AEPD fines Google LLC over data transfer without legal basis and hindering rights exercise: in English here; in Spanish here.

🇪🇸 Agencia Española de Protección de Datos - AEPD fines Spain's biggest supermarket chain for not replying to an access request and deleting video footage.

🇭🇰 PCPD Issues Guidance on Recommended Model Contractual Clauses for Cross-border Transfers of Personal Data.