In this week's Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, get a recap of all the recent developments with the California Consumer Privacy Act and explore a new CCPA tool created by the IAPP Westin Research Center. Canadian privacy officials found that Facebook violated the country's privacy laws. Read an op-ed on Poland's first EU General Data Protection Regulation fine. Washington state legislature was unable to pass new privacy and data protection legislation.
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The Madras High Court of India has lifted a ban on the video social networking app TikTok, reversing a court-ordered block from earlier this month.
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A bipartisan group of Maine lawmakers is preparing legislation to prohibit internet providers from selling residents' personal information.
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The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that a car passenger can challenge a police search of personal property found in a vehicle under the Fourth Amendment.
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The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader, which will determine whether food stamp data is public information that Congress intended to be released under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Sens. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and John Kennedy, R-La., have proposed legislation to prevent airlines from fixing cameras to airplane seats while demanding airlines disclose how the cameras are used.
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The Center for Women's Justice is planning a legal challenge against U.K. consent forms introduced by police forces that call for victims of sexual assault to hand over their mobile phones.
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Jerry Barbanel, CIPP/E, analyzed the recently proposed Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2019 in this post for Privacy Tracker.
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Reporting for The Privacy Advisor, IAPP Associate Editor Ryan Chiavetta, CIPP/US, wrote about the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia finding that Facebook violated Canada's privacy laws during its investigation of the Cambridge Analytica revelations.
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In a Privacy Tracker post, Jim Halpert provided a roundup on all the legislative action surrounding the California Consumer Privacy Act and discussed how lawmakers worked to tie up loose ends within the legislation.
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IAPP Westin Fellow Mitchell Noordyke, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, followed Halpert's Tracker piece with a Privacy Advisor article on the debate between advocates and industry playing out in proposed CCPA amendments.
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Noordyke also wrote about the state legislature's debates on the CCPA ad-tech carve-out amendment for The Privacy Advisor, and he penned a Privacy Perspective piece introducing people to the Westin Research Center's new “CCPA Rights and Obligations Tool."
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Karolina Gałęzowska wrote about the first post–EU General Data Protection Regulation decision by Poland's data protection authority in this Privacy Perspectives post. She explained how the fine raises questions about the GDPR's retroactive applicability, transparency, procedural justice and legal competence.
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Adam Lancaster, CIPP/US, and Divonne Smoyer, CIPP/US, talked with Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan about his leading role in regulating data brokers and protecting consumers in this piece for Privacy Advisor.
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IT firm Dell EMC expects companies in Thailand to allocate more spending toward data protection tech in the wake of the country passing the Personal Data Protection Act.
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CANADA
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has released a supplementary discussion document to explain its decision to revise its policy position on trans-border data flows.
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EUROPE
Greece's Hellenic Data Protection Authority fined Hellenic Petroleum 30,000 euros for data protection law violations.
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US
In an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, former U.S. Department of Commerce General Counsel and Acting Secretary Cameron Kerry explains why a federal privacy law can improve upon the California Consumer Privacy Act.
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Massachusetts Supreme Court unanimously decided to include cellphone location data in a person's right to privacy.
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Washington legislators voted to pass a bill to strengthen the state’s data breach notification laws.
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Washington State University has negotiated a $5.26 million settlement over a potential data breach from 2017.
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State lawmakers in Washington failed to pass the Washington Privacy Act, which would have regulated big tech and tackled consumer issues, like facial-recognition software and consumer data.
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