In this week's Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, read about highlights from the recent U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing, as well as the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. In Thailand, Parliament passed the Personal Data Protection Act and approved a new Cybersecurity Act. In Uganda, the Data Protection and Privacy Act was signed into law.
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Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni signed the Data Protection and Privacy Act, expanding the mandate of the National Information Technology Authority Uganda and regulating the collection and processing of personal information, the Kampala Post reports.
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Joining a growing consensus of judges across the state, a San Diego judge found California’s police transparency law to be retroactive, Courthouse News reports.
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Lawmakers in Nevada voiced privacy concerns over a bill that would give police the ability to check drivers' cellphones following traffic crashes, The Associated Press reports.
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ICYMI
With an influx of major privacy frameworks emerging around the world, representatives from Canadian law firm Fasken created a table comparing foundational aspects of Canadian laws like the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and Quebec's Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector with the EU General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act.
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Gil Zhang, CIPP/A, CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP, and Kate Yin look at China’s data protection priorities for 2019 in part one of a series for Privacy Tracker.
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In part two of a two-part series for Privacy Tracker, Gil Zhang, CIPP/A, CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP, and Kate Yin offer a look at the proposed revisions to the National Standard and the development of a certification scheme in China.
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In this article for The Privacy Advisor, Jennifer Baker covers EuropeanData Protection Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli’s annual report in Brussels Feb. 26.
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In this latest installment in the IAPP Westin Research Center FTC Casebook, Westin Fellow Mitchell Noordyke, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, analyzes the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announcement of a $5.7 million agreement with video social networking app Musical.ly (now TikTok) to settle alleged violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
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At a U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing last Tuesday, industry professionals and advocates made their pitches for what should be contained within a federal privacy bill. Angelique Carson, CIPP/US, has the scoop for The Privacy Advisor.
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Angelique Carson, CIPP/US, reports on the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing last Wednesday in this article for The Privacy Advisor.
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In this Privacy Tracker post, IAPP Westin Fellow Mitchell Noordyke, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, followed along with Washington state Senate Ways & Means Committee to gauge support for the Washington Privacy Act — SB 5376 — and where there still may be concerns for it going forward.
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ASIA-PACIFIC
The Indian government has released a draft of its national e-commerce policy, where it proposed the regulation of cross-border data flows, Bloomberg reports.
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Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission and the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore released a discussion paper on the inclusion of a data portability provision within the city-state’s Personal Data Protection Act, ZDNet reports.
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Thailand's Parliament passed the Personal Data Protection Act, a bill created to offer citizens similar protections to the EU General Data Protection Regulation, Reuters reports. Parliament also approved a new Cybersecurity Act, which gives the National Cybersecurity Committee the power to summon citizens and enter private property without a court order in cases of actual or potential "serious cyber threats."
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CANADA
Nova Scotia Information and Privacy Commissioner Catherine Tully called for an overhaul to the province's privacy laws, The Canadian Press reports.
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EUROPE
The Belgian data protection authority released its updated list of processing activities that require a data protection impact assessment under Article 35(4) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, according to a post from Hunton Andrews Kurth's Privacy & Information Security Law Blog.
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The Court of Appeals in Berlin ruled Apple must update portions of its data protection guidelines in order to be compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation, Telecompaper reports.
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A Handelsblatt survey found German data protection authorities have issued 41 fines for violations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation through mid-January 2019, MediaPost reports.
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US
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Calif., proposed a new amendment Monday afternoon to the California Consumer Privacy Act that would clarify the attorney general's advisory role, add a private right of action, and eliminate the so-called "right to cure."
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The American Civil Liberties Union of California and a collection of advocacy organizations have voiced their support for the "Privacy for All" state bill introduced by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, D-Calif. Bill AB 1760 would ensure companies get consumer consent before any of their data is shared.
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Gov. Charlie Baker, R-Mass., signed a bill into law that requires any holder of consumer data to provide free credit-monitoring services in the event of a data breach.
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Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., introduced the DATA Privacy Act, a rule created to prohibit tech companies from sending targeted ads that discriminate against protected groups, The Verge reports.
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New York lawmakers have passed a law to ban nonconsensual pornography, The New York Times reports. New York joins 41 other states and Washington, D.C., by banning the use of explicit images. Violators of the New York law could face up to one year in jail.
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