In this week's Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, DLA Piper's Jim Halpert, Lael Bellamy, CIPP/US, and Marco Berrios break down the "good" and "bad" of a potential California Privacy Rights Act, which is closing in on qualifying for the November ballot. The IAPP also released CPRA analysis in a new infographic. The U.S. Senate is preparing to vote on the reauthorization of government surveillance powers. In COVID-19 privacy law news, Australia introduced pandemic-focused privacy legislation, while Peru implemented new measures to fight the outbreak.
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and Office of the Australian Information Commissioner jointly announced the publishing of the Consumer Data Right's Compliance and Enforcement Policy.
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Turkey's data protection authority, the KVKK, announced a 1.1 million TL fine against Amazon for violating consent requirements Law No. 6563 of 2014 on the Regulation of Electronic Commerce and the Law on Protection of Personal Data No. 6698.
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ICYMI
Catherine Escobedo wrote for Privacy Tracker with a look at the three most recent measures the Peruvian government implemented to track COVID-19.
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DLA Piper's Jim Halpert, Lael Bellamy, CIPP/US, and Marco Berrios wrote for Privacy Tracker about the ramifications of a potential California Privacy Rights Act approval.
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The IAPP released an infographic outlining the 10 most-impactful provisions of the California Privacy Rights Act ballot initiative.
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In the first article of a three-part series for Privacy Tracker, Thompson Hine's Steven Stransky, CIPP/G, CIPP/US, and Darcy Brosky analyze how California Consumer Privacy Act regulations continue to interpret and provide guidance as to the meaning of personal information.
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ENFORCEMENT
According to Hunton Andrews Kurth's Privacy & Information Security Law Blog, the Belgium Data Protection Authority issued a 50,000 euro fine for a failure to adhere to data protection officer requirements under the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
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ASIA-PACIFIC
The Guardian reports Australia introduced draft privacy legislation for the country's COVID-19 contact tracing app.
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The South China Morning Post reports two judges for the Court of Appeal of the High Court of Hong Kong are leaning toward overturning the Court of First Instance's decision to continue allowing public access to Hong Kong's voter registry.
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EUROPE
The European Data Protection Board released updated guidelines for consent under the GDPR.
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Telecompaper reports Dutch Minister of Health Hugo de Jonge indicated the government, following consultation with the Dutch data protection authority, is prepared to amend the Telecom Act to allow mobile data sharing amid COVID-19.
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A lawsuit has been filed against the German government over alleged invasion of privacy related to mobile phone data checks of three refugees, Reuters reports.
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Euractiv reports the Hungarian government intends to suspend certain rights and protections provided by the GDPR until the COVID-19 outbreak subsides.
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The European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs said the U.K. should share more fingerprint data with EU member states to access its crime-fighting system, the Guardian reports.
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LATIN AMERICA
The Chilean Council for Transparency, Consejo para la Transparencia, proposed a data protection bill focused on the processing of patient data during the COVID-19 outbreak. (Original post is in Spanish.)
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US
The U.S. Senate will vote this week on amendments to the House of Representatives–approved Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reauthorization bill, The Hill reports.
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A U.S. appeals court ruled federal courts have jurisdiction over claims of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act violations, Reuters reports.
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A federal judge upheld a class-action lawsuit alleging Google’s voice-activated assistant violates users’ privacy, MediaPost reports.
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