St. Kitts and Nevis has passed the Data Protection Bill 2018 to promote the protection of personal data processed by public and private entities. New standards that clarify China's Cybersecurity Law went into effect last week, offering categories of personal and sensitive information under the CSL. The Indonesian government has launched another draft of the long-awaited ministerial decree on internet companies. The Thai government says the Data Protection Act will be before the cabinet this month. And in the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission has a new chair and three new commissioners, Louisiana is closer to a so-called revenge porn law, and supporters of the California Consumer Privacy Act submitted a petition with 625,000 signatures. Read about this and more in this week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup.
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A bill proposed by Canada's Liberal government aims to put a stop to fake news and foreign involvement in elections and require political parties to publish privacy policies, reports the Canadian Press.
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The British Columbia government has introduced whistleblower legislation including multiple avenues for reporting, confidentiality protections and more, reports The Lawyers Daily.
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St. Kitts and Nevis’ legislators pass Data Protection Bill 2018 designed to protect personal data processed by both public and private entities, the St Kitts Nevis Observer reports.
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Supporters of the California Consumer Privacy Act submitted a petition with 625,000 signatures in support of the ballot initiative, reports IVN.
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Legislation aiming to expand government use of drones in Illinois is sparking debate over privacy and safety, reports ABC7.
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The Louisiana House has passed a bill making it illegal to photograph or video an individual while they have a reasonable expectation of privacy, and also bans the non-consensual sharing of the images, reports The Advocate. The bill now heads to the state Senate.
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ICYMI
After many months of discussion and a public consultation, the European Commission presented its proposal for a “Regulation on cross-border access to and preservation of electronic data held by service providers,” along with a law requiring all service providers to appoint a legal representative within the EU. In this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor, Jennifer Baker describes the proposed regulation’s tenets and industry’s (perhaps expected) revolt against it.
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China's Cybersecurity Law has been in effect for a year now and throughout, standards and guidance has been published. One of those standards, Information Security Technology — Personal Information Security Specification, went into effect this week. Galaad Delval, CIPP/E, writes for Privacy Tracker about the new specification from the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee.
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Jeroen Terstegge, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, the IAPP's country leader in The Netherlands, writes in this post for Privacy Perspectives about the recently released fixes to translations of the GDPR, and navigating the inevitably different interpretations at the member state level.
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US
Joseph Simons, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee for chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, was sworn in for a term set to expire in September 2024.
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Noah Phillips, Becca Kelly Slaughter and Rohit Chopra have been sworn in to the FTC, Reuters reports.
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The Oakland City Council unanimously approved a new city ordinance, developed with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, that imposes community control over how surveillance technology is used in the city, Ars Technica reports.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Following a report that revealed some Indian political consultancies are collecting user data and selling it with political parties for ad campaigns, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said a new data privacy and protection law will be introduced, India Today reports.
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Criticism over Facebook’s handling of the Cambridge Analytica aftermath has prompted the Indonesian government to launch another draft of the long-awaited ministerial decree on internet companies, the South China Morning Post reports.
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The Data Protection Act, which is expected to usher in data privacy standards for Thai citizens, will be before the cabinet this month, the Bangkok Post reports.
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EUROPE
Acknowledging future amendments may be required to address additional considerations, the Law Society of Ireland submitted a draft Data Protection Bill 2018 ahead of the upcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation implementation.
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