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Whilst the UK left the European Union
( EU ) on 31 January 2020
( Exit Day ) it remained within the
EU s legal framework during the Brexit Transition Period
( Transition Period ). When the
Transition Period ends at 11:00 p.m. GMT on 31 December 2020
( Completion Day ), EU law that was
enacted before Exit Day applies in the UK as if it were national
law by virtue of Section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020
( Withdrawal Agreement ). EU ) will be incorporated
directly into UK law as the
Do Coronavirus Tracking Apps Threat Data Privacy? Published December 23rd, 2020 - 09:30 GMT
Contact tracing apps don’t need to collect personal data to work properly. (Shutterstock)
Highlights
And with the holiday season upon us, airlines are reporting 400 per cent surges in the number of bookings for the Christmas and New Year period, encouraging people to equip themselves with Covid-19 tracing apps to stay alert.
Research reveals that Covid-19 tracing apps are leaking private user data. According to ProPrivacy, UK and France contact tracing apps scored a pitiful 4 out of 10 privacy points, allowing data access to third-party hosting providers.
And with the holiday season upon us, airlines are reporting 400 per cent surges in the number of bookings for the Christmas and New Year period, encouraging people to equip themselves with Covid-19 tracing apps to stay alert.
Italian Regulator Takes Up Case Against TikTok for Endangering Kids’ Privacy
What’s new: The Italian data security regulator has initiated formal proceedings against Chinese-owned video-sharing sensation TikTok for endangering the privacy of children under 13, according to an
The data protection authority, known as the Italian DPA, is looking into TikTok’s “poor attention to the protection of children, easy-to-circumvent signup restrictions for children, poor transparency and clarity in user information, (and) privacy-unfriendly default settings.”
The global short video site has 30 days to file a plea and request a hearing, the regulator said in the announcement.
What’s the background: The Italian regulator’s decision comes after a panel of experts from the European Data Protection Board set up a task force to investigate the social media app over privacy concerns.
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As 2020 comes to a close, we take this opportunity to look back
at some of the more significant developments that we discussed in
the blog this year. The first is the EU
Court of Justice s Schrems II decision, finding that the
EU-U.S. Privacy Shield was not a valid mechanism for transferring
personal data from the EU to the U.S. Related decisions came out of
Switzerland and Israel.
As a result of that decision, companies transferring data
between the EU and the U.S. have had to rely on Standard Contractual
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As 2020 comes to a close, we take this opportunity to look back at some of the more significant developments that we discussed in the blog this year. The first is the EU Court of Justice’s Schrems II decision, finding that the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield was not a valid mechanism for transferring personal data from the EU to the U.S. Related decisions came out of Switzerland and Israel.
As a result of that decision, companies transferring data between the EU and the U.S. have had to rely on Standard Contractual Clauses, along with “additional steps” to make sure there are sufficient safeguards in place to protect the transferred data. The European Data Protection Board has, as we wrote, provided input on what might constitute such additional measures. Companies are working through this now, and anticipating changes that will be made to the SCCs themselves next year.