Brazil’s Ministry of Justice is opening a consultation on a draft Internet Decree aiming to regulate its Internet Civil Rights Framework; The EU and U.S. have agreed upon a new data transfer mechanism—EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, and the UK has announced plans not to comply with a section of the newly passed EU General Data Protection Regulation. In this Privacy Tracker weekly legislative roundup, get info on all these developments plus learn about Turkey’s draft Data Protection Law, get an update on U.S. privacy legislation and surveillance legislation drawing ire in Poland.

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Brazil’s Ministry of Justice has opened a new public consultation on the draft Internet Decree which would regulate the Civil Rights Framework for the Internet 2014 and includes issues such as net neutrality and online privacy, reports Privacy This Week.

A group of six U.S. Democrats led by Rep. Gene Green, D-Texas, have proposed a mental health bill with less drastic changes to HIPAA in response to a Republican bill that aims to target mass shootings, The Hill reports.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports on a Pennsylvania bill that aims to limit utilities’ ability to share individual smart meter data with third parties and government agencies without customer’s consent.

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In this seventh of a 10-part series, IAPP Westin Fellow Anna Myers, CIPP/US, explores new mandates for vendor management in the new EU General Data Protection Regulation.

Data Quality Campaign writes for Privacy Tracker that while things are expected to slow down a bit on the student privacy legislation front, 14 states are already considering 25 bills this session.

In this Privacy Tracker post, Hakki Can Yildiz, CIPM, lays out the main amendments included in this latest draft of Turkey’s data protection law.

In a statement posted to the U.K. Parliament website yesterday by Baroness Neville-Rolfe, the U.K. government has made it known that it will not choose to opt-in to Article 43a of the proposed General Data Protection Regulation, IAPP Publications Director Sam Pfeifle looks at what this means in this report for The Privacy Advisor.

The EU-US Privacy Shield:

EU Justice, Consumers, and Gender Equality Commissioner Vera Jourová, alongside Commission VP Andrus Ansip, unveiled a new trans-Atlantic data-transfer agreement to replace Safe Harbor, now called the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. In this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor, Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, reports on the new deal.

On Tuesday, European Commission officials announced the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, meaning they now have to draft a fresh EU Commission adequacy decision to replace Safe Harbor decision, Denis Kelleher writes for The Privacy Advisor on the uphill battle for the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.

In this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor, politicians, industry and privacy pros weigh in on the strength of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.

Listen to IAPP VP of Research and Education Omer Tene as he interviews a panel of experts, analyzing the new EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and talking about practical steps international organizations should be taking as the details fall into place.

Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP/US, CIPP/E, reports on reaction to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield from the head of the Article 29 Working Party and the U.S. Department of Commerce, in this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor.

U.S.

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, moved to spur the Judicial Redress Act's passage, a bill that would permit EU citizens the ability to challenge the improper use of their data in U.S. courts, The Hill reports.

After long delays, the House Judiciary Committee will vote on the Email Privacy Act in March, The Hill reports.

Washington state's U.S. District Judge Robert J. Bryan ruled in Tor-user Jay Michaud's child pornography and government surveillance case that Michaud's rights weren't impinged, Motherboard reports.

Poland's president approved surveillance legislation that will increase the state's ability to track its citizens, Swissinfo reports, drawing criticism from advocates.

ASIA PACIFIC

The Senate and Greens Senator Scott Ludlam's are asking for a governmental explanation for the holdup on the Privacy Amendment (Privacy Alerts) Bill from 2014, Computerworld reports..

EUROPE

The Russian data protection authority has released its data localization inspection plan for companies doing business in the country, Hogan Lovells Chronicle of Data Protection reports.