In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit filed in the Southern District of California last month, a handful of members of a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) called bZx DAO (bZx) commenced a class-action lawsuit against the founders.

On May 25, 2022, the Department of Justice, acting on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission, sued Twitter for failing to adequately disclose its use of users' phone numbers and email addresses to send targeted advertisements. Twitter resolved the suit by agreeing to pay $150 million in civil penalties and implement several robust compliance measures.

The "Law for the Protection of Electronic Patient Data in the Telematics Infrastructure (Patient Data Protection Act, PDSG)" entered into force on October 20, 2020, establishing the legal basis for introducing electronic prescriptions for medicinal products subject to prescription.

This new Law establishes the general framework for protecting whistleblowers by incorporating into the Portuguese law Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and of the Council of October 23, 2019, on protecting persons who report breaches of Union law.

The EDPB guidelines provide practical advice and recommendations for developers and users on assessing and avoiding social media interfaces that may be considered manipulative and thereby infringe GDPR-requirements.

In June 2019, the EU adopted Directive 2019/1024 on open data and the re-use of information from the public sector.

New laws governing AI are on the horizon that will bring about significant change for businesses relying on AI. Negotiations remain ongoing but it is clear, including from a European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)/European Data Protection Board (EDPB) joint opinion last year, that privacy considerations will need to be at the forefront of businesses’ minds.

Big data, beware. In 2021, we saw increased collaboration between antitrust and data protection regulators concerned with companies amassing and using personal data for commercial purposes. That trend is here to stay: European regulators aim to continue and expand on these enforcement efforts in 2022, especially against technology companies that collect large amounts of consumer data.

The NDPA fines companies for lack of access control, GDPR non-compliance, insufficient processing security and unlawful credit rating,

In this article, we aim to briefly introduce and illustrates the burning issues and significant aspects in the PIPL which will most likely impact to a great extent INGOs' international cooperation and operations in China.