The South African Information Regulator had its first briefing on the country's Protection of Personal Information Act; Australian companies have a year to come into compliance with the country’s new breach notification law; Japan’s Act on Protection of Personal Information comes into force at the end of May; and the EU ePrivacy Regulation proposal continues to be debated and analyzed. In the U.S., lawmakers have introduced the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act, designed to create rules for when agencies can track and access a citizen's geolocation data and privacy advocates are concerned about potential rollback of Federal Communications Commission's broadband privacy rules. Read about all this and more in this week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup.

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Australian companies and government agencies have a year to get into compliance with the new breach notification law. IDM offers first steps for getting there.
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Lexology offers an overview of changes in Japan’s data protection regime when the Act on Protection of Personal Information comes into force at the end of May.
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JDSupra offers part two of its U.S. state privacy and data security laws.
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A Florida court has struck down parts of a law restricting doctors from asking patients about gun ownership, saying it violates the doctors’ First Amendment rights, reports NPR.
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Georgia’s State Senate has passed a law that would make “upskirting” illegal in the state, WLTX reports it now goes to the House.
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A Massachusetts senator has introduced a bill to require law enforcement to get a warrant before accessing data collected through automatic tolls in the state, reports MassLive.
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Massachusetts Rep. Kate Hogan, D-Stow, has introduced a bill that would protect confidential information from being shared when multiple people are on the same plan, reports The Telegram.
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In the age of the internet of things, the future ePrivacy Regulation may have an impact as large, if not larger than, the General Data Protection Regulation, Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna writes for Privacy Tracker.
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The newly passed Cybersecurity Law of the People’s Republic of China will take effect in June 2017, and it is expected to have a significant impact on multinationals doing business in mainland China. In this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor, Hannah Ji, CIPM, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, and Jerry Fang describe the difficulties in complying with the law and what to expect in the near future.
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US

Republican lawmakers are preparing to make a legislative move to overturn the Federal Communications Commission's broadband privacy rules following requests from ISPs to undo the legislation, Ars Technica reports. 
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Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and Rep. John Conyers, Jr., D-Mich., introduced the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act, designed to create rules for when agencies can track and access a citizen's geolocation data.
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AFRICA

On Feb. 13, the South African Information Regulator had its first briefing on the country's Protection of Personal Information Act, IT-Online reports.
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EUROPE

European Data Protection Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli outlined his agency's top three strategic areas of importance for 2017.
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U.K. regulators will host a Fundraising and Regulatory Compliance Conference at Manchester Town Hall on Feb. 21 to outline "regulatory requirements and expectations for fundraising bodies and their boards under current and forthcoming data protection legislation," the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office reports.
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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he will not seek a second term, POLITICO reports. 
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The Article 29 Working Party discussed announced that it will publish amended guidelines for the DPO, lead authority and data portability provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation by April at the latest.
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