In this week's Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, read how France's data protection authority issued the European Union's largest ever financial penalty for a privacy breach. In Russia, the communications watchdog begins proceedings against Twitter and Facebook for failing to comply with domestic data laws. In Japan, a communications ministry panel suggests the country should consider applying privacy rules on overseas-based technology companies. In the U.S., lawmakers continue to introduce federal and state privacy legislation.
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The Egyptian parliament passed a bill requiring shop owners install surveillance cameras, Asharq Al-Awsat reports.
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A communications ministry panel says Japan should consider applying privacy rules on overseas-based technology companies, The Japan Times reports.
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France’s CNIL issued Google the EU's largest ever financial penalty for a privacy breach, 50 million euros, Politico reports.
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In Russia, the Roskomnadzor has opened administrative proceedings against Twitter and Facebook for allegedly failing to comply with legislation requiring them to store the personal data of Russian citizens on servers in Russia, Radio Free Europe reports.
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U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D- Minn., and John Kennedy, R-La., introduced the Social Media Privacy and Consumer Rights Act, MarketWatch reports.
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U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, has called for the creation of an Information Sharing and Analysis Center to act as an independent clearinghouse where companies can share information on cybersecurity threats, SFGate reports.
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Washington state senator Reuven Carlyle, D-Seattle, introduced Senate Bill 5376, giving state residents comprehensive privacy protection measures to strengthen consumer access to and control over personal data held by companies and the government, Washington State Senate Democratic Caucus reports.
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ICYMI
In this article for Privacy Tracker, Diego Fernandez writes on a recent ruling in Argentina where the Federal Administrative Court of Appeals recognized that public agencies may abstain from providing sensitive data when faced with public requests for information.
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In this post for Privacy Perspectives, Palhares Advogados Partner Felipe Palhares, CIPP/A, CIPP/C, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT looks at the provisional measure creating the Brazilian Data Protection Authority, assesses the uncertainty that still remains, and ponders whether that will ultimately be a curse in disguise.
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In this Privacy Tracker post, Timothy Banks, CIPP/C, CIPM, CIPT, considers how Canada's Liberal government has fared on some key cybersecurity, privacy and intelligence-gathering issues since taking power and what might be accomplished before the next election.
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Angelique Carson, CIPP/US, has the details on what the U.S. government shutdown means for federal privacy offices 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, looks at how the Frank v. Gaos case currently making its way through the U.S. Supreme Court’s docket may carry far-reaching implications for future privacy litigation.
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In this piece for Privacy Tracker, IAPP Westin Fellow Mitchell Noordyke, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, takes a look at some of the challenges the California Consumer Privacy Act creates with its imprecise language regarding de-identification, pseudonymization, and aggregation.
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ASIA-PACIFIC
The Indian Supreme court recently asked the government to respond within six weeks on pleas challenging a recent home ministry notification that allowed 10 agencies to legally request for surveillance under Section 69 of IT (Amendment) Act, 2008, Reuters reports.
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Social media platforms have asked the Indian government to hold a consultation process with stakeholders before finalizing amendments to the information technology rules for social media, BloombergQuint reports.
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The National Privacy Commission of the Philippines will investigate a claim from Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. that stated a terminated contractor had taken the personal data of passport holders, Philstar reports.
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Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission has fined Integrated Health Information Systems $750,000 and SingHealth $250,000 for the data breach that affected 1.5 million SingHealth patients, The Straits Times reports.
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CANADA
Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner Jill Clayton has asked the provincial government to consider alterations to its Personal Information Protection Act to safeguard citizens’ data from political parties, the Edmonton Journal reports.
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EUROPE
The Cross-Border Data Forum has released a report on the proposed EU E-Evidence law, which is set to act as an equivalent to the U.S. Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act.
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Politico reports the European Parliament and European Union member states have agreed to a new set of rules to curb the misuse of personal data to influence elections.
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Germany’s Federal Cartel Office plans to prohibit Facebook from the collection of user data from third parties, The Washington Post reports.
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US
In a column for The Hill, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., introduces his forthcoming privacy bill, the American Data Dissemination Act.
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Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., has called for stronger privacy protections to be enacted before the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration loosens rules around the use of commercial drones, Multichannel News reports.
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U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., has written a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai about the agency’s oversight of telecoms after last week's news about the sale of geolocation data, The Hill reports.
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U.S. lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill to ban the sale of tech to Chinese telecom companies that have violated U.S. export control or sanction laws, ZDNet report.
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Former U.S. Federal Communications Commission Bureau of Enforcement Chief Travis LeBlanc has been nominated by President Donald Trump for the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Multichannel News reports.
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U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai refused a request from House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., to conduct an “emergency briefing” about the agency’s oversight of telecoms involving the sale of geolocation data, ArsTechnica reports.
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Following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s suggestion of a “technological wall,” internet freedom group Fight for the Future circulated an online petition against the proposal, Fast Company reports.
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A judge from the district court of Northern California ruled law enforcement does not have the right to force suspects to unlock their phones through biometric identifiers, Forbes reports.
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A group of California-based privacy professionals has sent a letter to the state’s senators and assemblymembers to express their concerns with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018.
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