In this week's Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal Partner Diego Fernández breaks down Argentina's annual report highlighting data protection efforts. In Brazil, the Public Prosecutor's Office filed a notice voicing opposition to the postponement of the data protection law. The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office released the outline for its regulatory approach during the pandemic. And in the U.S., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., introduced the Equitable Data Collection and Disclosure on COVID-19 Act.
THE LATEST
The IAPP Resource Center released an updated version of the U.S. State Comprehensive Privacy Law Comparison chart. The chart includes six new privacy bills, as well as an update on several that failed in committee.
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ICYMI
In this piece for Privacy Tracker, Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal Partner Diego Fernández breaks down Argentina's annual report highlighting annual data protection efforts, including a breakdown of complaints processed, investigated and prosecuted.
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ENFORCEMENT
New Zealand's Office of the Privacy Commissioner issued a warning to a charity shop regarding its closed-circuit TV system.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights announced it will exercise its enforcement discretion for any organization that violates Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Rules while operating a COVID-19 testing site.
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Inter-Continental Hotels will pay $1.55 million to settle a proposed class-action in Georgia over alleged failure to protect credit and debit card data from hackers.
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Equifax will pay Indiana $19.5 million in the settlement of a lawsuit related to a 2017 data breach that affected at least 147 million consumers, Reuters reports.
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Brazil's Public Prosecutor's Office, the Ministério Público Federal, filed a notice to National Congress regarding its opposition to the government postponing enforcement of the Brazilian General Data Protection Law. (Article in Portuguese.)
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EU
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office released the outline for its regulatory approach during the pandemic.
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US
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., introduced the Equitable Data Collection and Disclosure on COVID-19 Act, which aims to collect demographic data on COVID-19 testing, treatment and fatality rates to put toward a final study.
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The Electronic Privacy Information Center argued in a U.S. Supreme Court filing that companies should be allowed to block third parties from accessing users’ personal data, MediaPost reports.
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A class-action lawsuit has been brought against Facebook, LinkedIn and Zoom alleging personal information from Zoom user accounts was shared to the social networking sites, Law360 reports.
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U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila, in San Jose, California, has refused a motion to appeal a prior dismissal claiming Google breached the California Invasion of Privacy Act with its location tracking, MediaPost reports.
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra issued a reminder to residents about their data rights as the state navigates through the COVID-19 pandemic.
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MediaPost reports a coalition of broadband companies filed a motion to invalidate Maine's privacy bill because it "violates the First Amendment."
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