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On October 19, the Australian government introduced proposed legislation to create a mandatory data breach notification scheme.

The opinion follows the enactment of the GDPR and the transposition of Directive 2016/680.

On September 5, the official journal published the Belgian law implementing the GDPR (source documents in French and in Dutch).

The opinion reviews key articles in the bill and highlights ambiguities and shortcomings.

On June 29, the Privacy Commission published an opinion denying the U.S. embassy's request to obtain from Belgian authorities the biometric data of four individuals subject to EU sanctions.

The review addresses the content of the assessment, the compulsory nature of impact assessments, and stakeholders involved the process.

On September 10, the official journal published a law establishing the "Information Security Committee" to perform specific tasks regarding processing by public bodies

On June 24, the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency ("ANATEL") announced changes to its regulatory agenda (source document in Portuguese) for the rest of 2016.

The contributions will be used to draw up a map of companies and scientific and technological institutions that offer IoT technologies, products, services, and solutions in Brazil.

On May 11, Decree No. 8,771 (source document in Portuguese), an executive order regulating the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet (source document in Portuguese), became effective.

On December 7, 2016, a special parliamentary commission began to review a draft of the Personal Data Processing Bill No. 4060/2012.

On April 26, 2018, Brazil's National Monetary Council issued Resolution 4,656, regulating credit financial technologies (source document in Portuguese).

The final version will be sent as a draft decree to the Presidency of the Republic.

On September 30, VERT and Suntech, two of the main cybersecurity and surveillance companies in Brazil, formalized a partnership (source document in Portuguese), for the optimization of client engagement, security intelligence, fraud management, and risk conformity products.

The draft text will be discussed during committee meetings and is pending adoption by the EU Parliament and the Council.

On May 24, 2018, the OPC published two new guidance documents to help organizations comply with privacy obligations.

On March 20, 2018, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada ("OPC") opened an investigation concerning recent alleged reports of a major social media company...