Today marks the effective date of the UK’s new revenge porn law, and, in the U.S., Hong Kong’s PCPD has issued guidance on both CCTV and drone use and Google has lost most of its challenge of an order from Hamburg’s Data Protection Authority. Also in this week’s Privacy Tracker weekly roundup, read about a right-to-be-forgotten decision by Italy’s Garante and bills in U.S. states addressing breach notification, revenge porn, student privacy, police cell phone tracking and the online data of deceased individuals.

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The UK’s revenge porn law is officially in effect, The Telegraph offers a Q&A on the new law.

Alabama is considering a breach notification law, which would make it the 48th in the country, reports The National Law Review.

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U.S.

Sam Pfeifle writes for Privacy Advisor about the FCC fining AT&T $25M for a data privacy lapse.

In a column for Forbes, the Washington Legal Foundation's Glenn Lammi writes, the Obama administration's Discussion Draft: Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 2015 should cause concern for "those who work in and benefit from the Internet Economy" as "certain aspects of the draft impose burdens on data use that far outpace any that currently prevail or have been proposed at the federal level."

EU

In the second of a three-part series for The Privacy Advisor, Steve Kenny looks at how the EU's forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation will affect change organizationally.

In a Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society blog post, Giancarlo Frosio writes about a decision by the Italian Data Protection Authority, the Garante, which found "users cannot obtain the delisting of search results of recent news with a relevant public interest. However, search engines must delete or edit automatically generated snippets accompanying the search results if they are misleading."

Google has lost most of its challenge of an order from Hamburg Data Protection Authority Johannes Caspar on how it can combine data to find out user preferences, BloombergBusiness reports.

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