JANUARY 2026 ISSUE NO. 298 |
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APAC
- The Advertising Standards
Council of India published a white paper on navigating cookie
consent in light of new data protection framework.
- Australia’s Online Safety
Amendment Act, restricting social media access for
children came into force.
- On
Data Privacy Day, India’s Press Information Bureau released an
explainer highlighting country’s evolving
digital governance ecosystem.
- China’s CAC invited public
comments on draft Regulations on the
Collection and Use of Personal Information by Internet Applications.
- A leading Indian IT services company announced
plans to apply for registration as a consent manager under the DPDP Act.
- South Korea’s Personal Information
Protection Commission released a notice of partial amendment to
the Personal Information Protection Level Assessment.
- Personal Information
Protection Commission of Japan published a draft
policy for revision of
the three-year review system of the Act on Personal
Information Protection.
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EU
- European Commission
published a summary
and individual submissions received in response to
consultation on review of
the Digital Markets Act.
- CNIL, France imposed fines of
EUR 42 million on telecommunications company and its
subsidiary for inadequate data security measures.
- Spanish Data
Protection Agency published a
note analysing the risks of using third-party images
in AI systems.
- Data
Protection Authorities of Denmark, Norway and Liechtenstein jointly
released a notice on personal data transfers to China by a social
media platform.
- Italy’s Cybersecurity
Agency issued guidelines for incident management under the
NIS2 Directive.
- Belgian
Data Protection Authority published opinion on proposed
amendments to the Economic Law Code to combat unsolicited
marketing.
- Iceland’s Data
Protection Authority published amendments to the rules
on electronic monitoring.
- Financial Supervisory Authority of
Norway released a report on deficiencies in ICT
activities of an insurance company.
- Netherland’s Cyber
Security Centre and Digital Trust Centre announced their
merger.
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Americas
- New York’s Artificial Intelligence Consumer Protection Act
introduced in the Senate.
- The Electronic
Privacy Information Center submitted comments
to the US Citizenship and Immigration
Services on biometric data collection.
- South
Dakota introduced legislation to enhance protections for genetic
data.
- Bill
to amend the Consumer Data Protection Act introduced
in Virginia.
- California’s
Privacy Agency imposed a fine of USD 62,600 on a capital markets
company for failure to register as a data broker.
- Bill
on surveillance pricing and addictive online platforms introduced
in the Kentucky House of Representatives.
- Texas’s
Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act entered into
force.
- California
law on data broker governing data collection and
deletion came into effect.
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Middle East
- UAE Government issued
a Federal Decree-Law on Child Digital Safety.
- Turkish
Data Protection Authority released a new issue of its Journal of
Personal Data Protection.
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