Global News Roundup—January 12-19, 2015
Contributors:
Emily Leach
CIPP/E, CIPP/US
Privacy Director
Emily Leach Privacy
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.
LATEST NEWS
Associated Press reports that the Colorado Senate is considering a bill that would require law enforcement to have a warrant before using a drone and set limits on private use of drones.
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.
North Dakota State Rep. Kim Koppelman (R-West Fargo) has introduced a bill that would exempt images from police-worn body cameras from open records requirements, reports The Bismarck Tribune.
ICYMI
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.
U.S.
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.
The Obama administration has released the text of its proposed data breach notification bill, Law360 reports.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said he will propose legislation to strengthen the state's data security law, reports Reuters.
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) will soon introduce a data breach notification billthat 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."
CANADA
CBC News reports on legislation to be tabled this month that "will provide national security agencies with explicit authority to obtain and share information that is now subject to privacy limits.”
Ontario Acting Privacy Commissioner Brian Beamish "is calling for changes in legislation to make it harder for hospitals to handle privacy breaches internally without reporting them to the privacy office," Toronto Star reports.
EU
Meanwhile, UK Prime Minister David Cameron has called for a ban on encrypted communications, reports The Guardian.
French data protection authority, the CNIL, published its standard defining accountability in practice, and companies demonstrating compliance will receive accountability seals from the data protection authority, Hogan Lovells' Chronicle of Data Protection reports.
Out-Law.com reports, the CNIL has issued new standards for call-monitoring and recording by employers.
In The Netherlands next month, the District Court of the Hague will hear a legal challenge of the Dutch data retention law "filed by a broad coalition of organizations,"PCWorld reports.
