In this week's Privacy Tracker weekly legislative roundup, read about new rules in China requiring online commenters to identify themselves. The Austrian parliament has passed a new Data Privacy Act that aims to align it with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. France's data protection authority, the CNIL, has changed the rules for whistleblowers. Canadian courts are making efforts toward requiring a warrant for searching a person’s cellphone at the border. In the U.S., Colorado, Illinois and Michigan have new privacy-related laws. Plus, we have exclusives on India's Supreme Court ruling, the U.K.'s statement of intent outlining planned revisions its data protection law, draft guidelines on transferring ownership of a database from Israel's data protection authority, and a matchup between Japan's data protection law and the GDPR.
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France’s CNIL has published a blanket authorization for whistle-blowing that eliminates a time-consuming preapproval process among other changes, The National Law Review reports.
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The Colorado Open Records Act got an update over the summer allowing for records to be released digitally, CU Boulder Today reports.
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Illinois’ governor has signed legislation that puts restrictions on the collection and sharing of students’ data by apps and websites, The Telegraph reports.
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New rules governing how Michigan police use body cameras and what can be done with data collected by them will go into effect in January, The Oakland Press reports.
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This Lexology report outlines the requirements under New York’s new cybersecurity regulations and how they will affect banks outside the state.
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ICYMI
In this installment of the Privacy Tracker GDPR matchup series, Kensaku Takase of Baker McKenzie compares Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information with the principles expressed by the GDPR.
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Gal Omer, CIPP/E, senior associate in Amit, Pollak, Matalon & Co., writes for Privacy Tracker about the Israeli Law, Information and Technology Authority’s new draft guidelines setting extensive data protection standards for transferring ownership of a database.
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Mayuran Palanisamy, CIPT, writes for Privacy Tracker about India's Supreme Court ruling that privacy is a fundamental right, noting that it "could be a key step toward a comprehensive privacy regulation."
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David Meyer reports in this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor about the U.K. government’s statement of intent regarding its upcoming revision to its data protection law, claiming it would set a global "gold standard" for such legislation.
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GLOBAL
The APEC Electronic-Commerce Steering Group’s Data Privacy Subgroup met with the European Commission to discuss the facilitation of global data flows and issues related to personal data protection regimes.
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The International Conference on Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities will be hosting a roundtable Sept. 27 to examine the scope and goals of a joint international privacy metrics agenda.
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US
In what the ACLU is calling "a big win for transparency in California," the California Supreme Court ruled this week that bulk-collected and -stored license-plate data does not constitute "investigative records" and therefore cannot be kept secret.
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ASIA-PACIFIC
China’s Cyberspace Administration announced new regulations to take effect Oct. 1 forbidding commenters from posting anything on internet platforms without identifying themselves, The Diplomat reports.
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Australia's Victorian state government has unveiled a new holistic government strategy focused on building cyber resilience, emphasizing the ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents and disruption rather than compliance, The Mandarin reports.
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New Zealand’s Council for Civil Liberties reports that Privacy Commissioner John Edwards will put an end to a loophole in the Privacy Act that allowed organizations to voluntarily release private information in order “to avoid prejudice to the maintenance of the law.”
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A new regulation requiring New Zealand's largest online auction platform, TradeMe, to verify license details with police for each firearm transaction is raising privacy concerns for gun owners, Newshub reports.
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CANADA
CBC News reports Canada’s office of Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan is creating a directive to dictate how Canada’s electronic spy agency shares foreign signals intelligence with their closest allies, the Five Eyes partners.
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Techdirt reports on efforts within Canada to require a warrant for searching a person’s cellphone at the border.
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EUROPE
Lexology reports the Austrian parliament has passed the country’s new Data Privacy Act, which aims to line up with the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
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