The Article 29 Working Party has elected Andrea Jelinek, head of Austria's data protection authority, as its new chairwoman. Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission released its response after a period of public consultation for a draft cybersecurity bill. U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, has introduced the CLOUD Act, which would allow the U.S. government to issue warrants for data held overseas; Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., has introduced a bill to advance the Department of Homeland Security Data Framework Act, aiming to streamline government agencies’ information-sharing capabilities. At the state level, Arizona is considering a comprehensive data breach law, Florida is considering protecting information on mobile devices, Nebraska is considering drone privacy and license plate-reader legislation, and more. Read about all of it in this week’s Privacy Tracker weekly legislative roundup.

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Lexology reports on the ways the EU General Data Protection Regulation will affect current standard contractual clauses.
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NextGov reports on the CLOUD Act, which would allow the U.S. government to issue warrants for data held on overseas servers, though the organization holding the data could then challenge the warrant in a U.S. court.
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A U.S. House Financial Services subcommittee will convene this week to hold the first of what may be a series of hearings on potential breach notification and data security legislation, Inside Cybersecurity reports.
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Alabama’s Senate has passed a bill making “upskirting” illegal, The Associated Press reports.
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Arizona’s Attorney General and a state Representative have introduced a comprehensive and pro-consumer data breach law, Legal Newsline reports.
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A bipartisan bill in the Colorado Senate proposed the state use blockchain technology to secure government data, StateScoop reports.
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A Florida Senate committee has approved a bill aiming to protect electronic communications and location information on mobile devices, The Capitolist reports.
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The Nebraska Senate passed a bill limiting police use of license-plate reader data, the Omaha World-Herald reports.
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A Nebraska state senator has introduced legislation that would establish a no-hover zone for drones over privacy property without consent, KETV reports.
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New Mexico’s lawmakers are discussing setting up a community task force to consider whether to create privacy rules for police video, The Associated Press reports.
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Poyner Spruill offers an analysis of North Carolina’s Act to Strengthen Identity Theft Practices, which aims to better protect sensitive information of state residents.
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The Virginia House unanimously passed a bill that would require the Department of Health Professions Director to more closely track the prescribing habits of practitioners, Healthcare IT News reports.
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The Article 29 Working Party has elected Andrea Jelinek, head of Austria's data protection authority, as its new chairwoman. Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP, has the details in this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor. 
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In this Privacy Tracker post, Tilburg University Professor and Morrison & Foerster Senior Of Counsel Lokke Moerel discusses the draft U.K. GDPR implementation law, saying the draft "seems to apply to non-EU processors providing B2B services to companies" in circumstances "contrary to the applicability regime of the GDPR and constitute regulatory overreach."
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In this second installment of the 10-part series addressing organizational responses to GDPR requirements, IAPP Westin Fellow Lee Matheson, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, tackles using “lawful bases” to justify the processing of personal data.
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At a meeting in Vancouver Monday, the American Bar Association's House of Delegates voted to approve a resolution on the IAPP's Privacy Law Specialist accreditation, reports Angelique Carson, CIPP/US, in The Privacy Advisor. 
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US

Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., has introduced a bill to advance the Department of Homeland Security Data Framework Act, which would establish a central database, pulling together relevant data across government agencies to streamline information-sharing capabilities, The Hill reports.
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At a hearing to discuss virtual currencies, the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs signaled that current laws may not be fully equipped to deal with cryptocurrency and hinted that additional legislation may be in its future, Recode reports.
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The nominees for the Federal Trade Commission will have their confirmation hearings Feb. 14, Reuters reports.
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ASIA PACIFIC

Following a period of public consultation for a draft cybersecurity bill, Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission released its response to key matters raised by the 68 comments, OpenGov reports.
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CANADA

The House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security is looking through the latest version of the Liberal government’s national security legislation, C-59, Global News reports.
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EUROPE

During Wednesday's Article 29 Working Party news conference announcing the election of its next chairwoman, Andrea Jelinek, outgoing chairwoman and current CNIL President Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin expressed some concern that 26 of the 28 EU member states have yet to align national laws to ensure data protection authorities will be resourced and independent ahead of the May 25 General Data Protection Regulation deadline, EUobserver reports.
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The European Commission outlined several of its efforts to develop a common approach on blockchain technology for the European Union.
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