The Australian government has released a list of legislation it plans to propose in the spring Parliament sittings, including a mandatory data breach notification bill. Germany is considering loosening its tough privacy laws after a series of terror attacks. The U.K. is considering a plan to sell patient data to privacy companies. And in the U.S., California has two new privacy laws protecting the data of students and applicants to its health insurance exchange, while a bill to protect biometric and geolocation data died in the Senate. Read about all this and more in this week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup. 

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A plan for expanding privacy protections for biometric and geolocation data died in the California Senateover concerns that amendments to it needed more attention, reports The Recorder.

Consumer Watchdog is concerned about the removal of privacy protections in a California autonomous vehicle bill aimed at allowing the testing of driverless vehicles in Contra Costa County, reports East Bay Times.

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Angelique Carson, CIPP/US, reports for The Privacy Advisor on the early adopters of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.

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