July 2017, but have been suspended in response to broad-based concerns raised by businesses, charities, and the non-profit sector. Minnesota businesses should be looking at their promotional emails, texts, newsletters, and other electronic communications that are sent to Canadian residents to see if they fit within the exemptions under CASL, or make sure that appropriate consent has been obtained. When reviewing customer and contact lists, it is also necessary to keep records showing consent. [For more information on CASL see, Frequently Asked Questions about Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation ]. OTHER COUNTRIES Global privacy law is in flux, but an overview of some of the recent global privacy happenings demonstrates that it is no longer sufficient to look to the United States and the EU for trends in privacy law; it is time to start thinking about privacy on a global scale. • Brazil’s General Data Protection regulation (LGPD), a law similar to the GDPR, became effective December 2020. • Japan and the EU agreed to recognize each other’s data protection systems as equivalent, so data transfers between countries are now possible without further authorizations; •India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act was passed in August 2023 (“DPDP”). The DPDP is similar to the GDPR and has an extraterritorial reach. •Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) ,highly influenced by the GDPR became effective June 1, 2022. PDPA violators face the risk not only of fines, but the possibility of criminal prosecution and imprisonment for up to one year. • China has recently joined the list of countries that have adopted the world’s strictest data-privacy laws. China’s first attempt to regulate the internet was its Cybersecurity Law (“CSL”) of 2017. In 2021 China passed the Data Security Law of the P.R.C (“DSL”), which came
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