In this week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup, learn about U.S. President Barack Obama’s announcements including a data breach notification proposal and plans for student privacy and cybersecurity. In Canada, lawmakers will soon table a bill loosening restrictions on data collection and sharing, and Ontario healthcare providers may see changes in breach reporting rules. The French data protection authority has established a new seal program for complying with new standards of accountability it released and has issued new standards for call-monitoring and recording by employers.

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A new Illinois law allows schools to demand a student’s social media password if it has a reasonable cause to believe the account contains evidence a student has violated a schools disciplinary rule of policy, reports Fox News.

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Debates over modernizing the EU privacy regime have spanned four years and six presidencies of the Council of the EU. Caution is warranted, but the need is pressing, writes Eduardo Ustaran, CIPP/E, for Privacy Tracker.

Attorney Marcin Lewoszewski of CMS writes for Privacy Tracker about Poland’s new requirements for registering data protection officers.

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The IAPP’s Westin Research Center released the FTC Casebook, in which all FTC complaints and consent decrees and attendant documents are searchable by keyword, tag or case home page.

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) will soon introduce a data breach notification bill that closely resembles a proposal President Barack Obama called for during his speech Monday, The Hill reports.

The Hill reports on comments made by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) on the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, saying its “astonishingly broad and overly vague information-sharing regime does more harm than good when it comes to Americans' privacy."

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