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Privacy professionals in the U.S and EU are currently working to make heads or tails of the impact of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, the Judicial Redress Act and the Umbrella Agreement. By month’s end, U.S. federal lawmakers expect movement on amendments to the Email Privacy Act and the Federal Communications Commission should release broadband user privacy specifications. In Australia, a New South Wales parliamentary committee wants to see a new legal action for serious invasions of privacy; and in India, new legislation moving forward the implementation of the Aadhaar card has privacy advocates concerned. Read about all this and more in this week’s Privacy Tracker weekly legislative roundup.
LATEST NEWS
The New South Wales Standing Committee on Law and Justice has recommended that NSW be the first in Australia to create a new legal action for serious invasions of privacy, reports Sydney Morning Herald.
The Indian government has moved a piece of legislation related to the Aadhaar card that has privacy advocates concerned that there are not enough protections in place for the biometric data connected to the card, reports The Telegraph.
Billings Gazette reports, the Wyoming legislature has denied a bill barring school district employees from asking a student to provide their login information for personal online accounts.
ICYMI
Mary Ellen Callahan, CIPP/US, Nancy Libin and Lindsay Bowen write for Privacy Tracker about the Judicial Redress Act and the next steps for it as well as its effect on the Umbrella Agreement and the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.
In this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor, privacy pros in the EU and the U.S. discuss whether the draft of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield looks like something the EU can cope with, despite the shortcomings some perceive remain.
In this post for The Privacy Advisor, Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, reports on the release of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield package and early reaction to this major development for trans-Atlantic data flows.
In this post for Privacy Perspectives, John Bowman, CIPP/E, and Jade Nester Gray, CIPP/E, CIPP/G look further into the announcement by the U.K. minister in charge of data protection that the nation has opted out of Article 43a of the GDPR and what it means for the GDPR moving forward.
US
At a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler indicated that the agency could have a proposal on broadband user privacy specifications by month's end, Multichannel News reports.
The House Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on the Email Privacy Act by the end of the month, MediaPost reports.
Privacy advocates are concerned that the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act’s "Fourth waiver" element railroads the privacy of individuals under probation or parole, The Intercept reports.
EUROPE
Representatives from Adobe, Microsoft and Google discussed the General Data Protection Regulation and its ramifications at the IAPP-sponsored panel at the RSA Conference yesterday, The Irish Times reports.