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Severe fines levied for General Data Protection Regulation non-compliance showed organizations that the regulation is far from toothless and that data protection authorities are not easing up just because there is an ongoing global pandemic.

In the US, the California Consumer Privacy Act has kickstarted a swathe of data privacy reforms within many states, with many calls for something similar at the federal level.

Other noteworthy movements in data protection laws are happening in Russia with amendments to the Federal Law on Personal Data, which is taking a closer look at TLS as a protective measure, and in the Philippines, where the Personal Data Protection Act 2021 is being replaced by a new bill.

One of the biggest events of 2021 will be the UK leaving the EU. The British implementation of the GDPR comes in the form of the UK Data Protection Bill 2018.

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