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Following other legislators' footsteps, in November 2020, the Canadian House of Commons introduced the Digital Charter Implementation Act (DCIA), also known as Bill C-11. Like similar data privacy laws, the DCIA aims to regulate the collection, distribution, use and disclosure of consumer information used in commercial activities.

In June 2020, the Japanese government enacted an amendment to the APPI. The new amended APPI will come into effect on April 1, 2022. Like other data privacy laws worldwide, the APPI aims to protect the personal data of Japanese citizens.

In July 2020, the South African Parliament enacted POPIA. It is the nation’s latest and most prominent data privacy law governing the personal data of South Africans. With a series of new data privacy laws coming into effect worldwide – such as the GDPR and the CCPA – this marks the latest addition, enhancing South African regulations to reflect new global norms.

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Under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, all member states were required to create a data protection authority. These agencies are tasked with protecting the rights of EU citizens' data in the member state. The French Data Protection Authority in France is the CNIL.

Across the world, businesses and individuals are now commonly aware of the GDPR. That is a legislative framework governing the collection and use of EU citizen personal data. What’s often less appreciated is the role individual member states play in data protection.

As the internet has become increasingly globalized, national authorities have taken steps to protect citizens' personal data. That comes after numerous major data breaches from transnational corporations, in addition to the secretive collection of personal data without regulatory oversight. In Singapore, the law on data protection is the PDPA.

The LGPD is the Brazilian General Data Protection Law (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais). It was passed into law by the National Congress of Brazil on 14 August 2018 and came into effect in September 2020.