Mehal Jain reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday remarked that in a case of hacking and data theft, in addition to penal provisions of the IT Act, offences under the IPC would also be attracted and that the IT Act would not exclude the applicability of the IPC. Read more on LiveLaw.in. Related: Order.
Category: Legislation
Georgia’s HB 156, requiring state notice for utility cybersecurity incidents, is now in effect
Lael Bellamy and Emily Maus of DLA Piper write: Georgia’s governor has signed into law House Bill 156, creating specific notice requirements for state agencies and utilities that experience cybersecurity attacks, data breaches or malware and requiring notice to the state director of emergency management in Georgia within two hours of notifying the federal emergency…
NSW readies its own data breach notification scheme for state agencies
Asha Barbaschow reports: The New South Wales government is preparing a new Bill that will require public sector and state-owned entities to report a data breach to the Privacy Commissioner as well as any affected individuals. The Privacy and Personal Information Protection Amendment Bill 2021 aims to strengthen privacy protection in NSW and extends the federal breach…
Privacy Updates from China: Proliferation of Sector-Specific Rules As Key Legislation Remains Pending – Part 2: Data Protection in the Financial Sector
Yan Luo, Zhijing Yu, and Vicky Liu of Covington & Burling write: In Part 1 of this blog series (see here), we discussed recent data protection developments in China’s e-commerce sector. In this post, we discuss recently issued rules aimed at improving data governance in China’s financial sector that could also have data protection implications. These…
China Issues Second Version of the Draft Personal Information Protection Law for Public Comments
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On April 29, 2021, China issued a second version of the draft Personal Information Protection Law (“Draft PIPL”). The Draft PIPL will be open for public comments until May 28, 2021. While the framework of this version of the Draft PIPL is the same as the prior version issued on October 21, 2020,…
Scraping Episodes Highlight Debate Over Anti-Hacking Law’s Scope
Andrea Vittorio reports: Recent data scraping incidents at Facebook Inc. and LinkedIn Corp. highlight an ongoing debate over whether companies can invoke an anti-hacking law to restrict rivals or other actors from harvesting information from people’s online profiles. The issue could reach the U.S. Supreme Court, in a case over a data-scraping dispute between LinkedIn and workforce…