Inside Privacy: Through the Looking Glass

On Episode 19 of Covington’s Inside Privacy Podcast, Dan Cooper and and Yan Luo discuss the key provisions of China’s draft SCCs, compare the draft legislation with the GDPR, and talk through actions that companies should be considering in order to comply with the new cross-border data requirements.

On Episode 17 of Covington’s Inside Privacy Podcast, Dan Cooper, Sam Choi, Danielle Kehl and Nick Shepherd discuss the developments related to children’s privacy, looking at relevant legislation, standards, and guidelines in the UK, the EU, and the U.S., and zooming in on some child-specific topics such as age thresholds and age verification, child-oriented transparency, and broader child online safety developments.

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On Episode 16 of Covington’s Inside Privacy Podcast, Dan Cooper, Yan Luo and Zhijing Yu discuss the implications of China’s Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) for companies with data or doing business in China. The law, which entered into force on November 1, is the first comprehensive personal information protection law in China and bears a resemblance to the EU’s GDPR.

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On Episode 15 of Covington’s Inside Privacy Podcast, Dan Cooper is joined by Nick O’Connell, head of Al Tamimi’s Digital & Data practice in Saudi Arabia. Nick shares his insights on recent privacy developments in Saudi Arabia and the broader Middle East region, in particular as they relate to emerging data protection frameworks in these jurisdictions, and the impact of GDPR.

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On Episode 13 of Covington’s Inside Privacy Podcast, Dan Cooper is joined by Dotan Hammer, a Partner in the Internet, Cyber & Copyright Group at Pearl Cohen, to discuss recent privacy developments in Israel, including Israel’s data-economy relations with the EU and the U.S.

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In celebration of data privacy as a human right as part of South Africa’s Human Rights Day 2021, we feature special guest Advocate Pansy Tlakula, Chairperson of the Information Regulator of South Africa on Episode 12 of Covington’s Inside Privacy Podcast. Together with Dan Cooper and Mosa Mkhize, we discuss the Information Regulator of South Africa’s mandate, data protection legislation in South Africa and the implementation of Pro...

The EU’s ePrivacy Regulation, like the EU GDPR, has been highly anticipated since it was first proposed in 2017. What are the current developments and next steps in the process to enactment? What are some of the complicating factors of the proposed Regulation? Are there major differences between the initial proposal and where the text is now? Who will be impacted when the Regulation will be enacted, and what about the implications ...

On the ninth episode of our Inside Privacy Podcast, we peer through the looking glass at China’s approach to data protection and the latest developments in its emerging data protection and cybersecurity regime. Dan Cooper, Yan Luo and Zhijing Yu discuss the variety of legal instruments in China’s quickly-evolving data protection and cybersecurity regulatory landscape, and how these are being implemented.

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On the eighth episode of our Inside Privacy Podcast, we peer through the looking glass at the U.S. election and the future of privacy laws in the U.S. We discuss whether the November 3 election is likely to be a watershed event in the development of privacy laws in the U.S. In this episode, Dan Cooper and Libbie Canter discuss insights and predictions following the 2020 U.S. election, including U.S. federal and state legislative in...

Over the past 9 months, the UK has been hammering out the shape of its future trading relationship with the EU, as well as many others, and there apparently are signs of progress in the past few days as a result of intensified talks between the two sides. Some are reporting a deal will be reached soon, which would be significant, as the Brexit transition period will end on December 31, 2020, deal or no deal. Today’s episode feature...

Recently, there has been a significant level of attention given to data protection and privacy matters on the Continent, and in the just the past year, we have seen new laws proposed or enacted in places like Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, and of course South Africa, although prior to that, places like Morocco, Ghana and Mali sought fit to regulate in this space, passing their own data protection laws. In 2014, the African Union adopted it...

On June 22, 2020, the South African President announced that certain provisions of POPIA would take effect on July 1, provisions which most regard as essential to the statute, such as those imposing conditions on the lawful processing of personal information, procedures for handling complaints, and general enforcement provisions. Only days later, the South African Information Regulator issued his own statement welcoming the coming ...

On our fourth episode of our Inside Privacy Podcast, we are aiming our looking glass at the California Privacy Rights Act, and are joined by guest speaker Jacob Snow, Technology and Civil Liberties Attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.

In September 2019, Alastair Mactaggart, Board Chair and Founder of Californians for Consumer Privacy, launched a new ballot initiative to appear on that state’s Nov...

On our third episode of our Inside Privacy Podcast, we are aiming our looking glass at Brazil’s new data protection statute, Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (or LGPD), and are joined by Ronaldo Lemos, a partner at Rennó Penteado.

In our episode recorded earlier this week, Dan Cooper and Ronaldo discuss the LGPD, which is due to take effect in the coming days.  In a surprise move, Brazil’s Senate yesterday reversed a decision by the ...

On the second episode of our Inside Privacy Podcast, we are aiming our looking glass at Russia, and are joined for our discussion by Partner Maria Ostashenko and Senior Associate Anastasia Petrova of the Data Protection and Cybersecurity practice at the Alrud law firm in Moscow.

The pair discuss Russia’s data protection framework, zooming in on the interplay between its data localization and cross-border data transfer regulations, ...

The Court of Justice of the European Union’s recent decision in the “Schrems II’ case was one of the most highly anticipated decisions in the world of data privacy, striking down the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, but upholding the validity of standard contractual clauses.

Tune in to the first episode of Covington’s Inside Privacy Podcast, where Dan Cooper moderates a discussion with Kristof Van Quathem, who was part of Covington’s case t...