Please click here to read the latest data privacy alert from the Squire Patton Boggs Data Protection & Cyber Security team. This week’s alert covers news from Germany, the UK and the US.

Germany

• Controversy on Implementation of the Cookie Directive Revived

• District Court: Dashcam Recordings Non-Admissible as Evidence in Civil Procedure

United Kingdom

• Parliamentary Committee Publishes its Report, “Privacy and Security: A Modern and Transparent Legal Framework” Following an Inquiry into the UK’s Intelligence and Security Agencies

• House of Lords EU Committee Publishes Report on the Use of Drones in the EU

• MPs Call for UK Strategy to Deliver Benefits of Technological Changes in Transport Sector

• New Report Warns Government Over Failure to Provide Guidelines on Use of Biometric Data

• ICO Raids Call Centre in Relation to Nuisance Calls

United States

• Federal Trade Commission Signs Privacy Memorandum of Understanding with Dutch Agency