In this week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup, get insight on the EU General Data Protection Regulation’s new rules surrounding employee data, cross-border data transfers and “profiling,” also, find out what’s happening in negotiations for EU-U.S. data transfers. Israel’s data protection authority has clarified its stance on transferring data to the U.S. after the invalidation of Safe Harbor. Canada may see a legislative approach to public-sector record keeping in the wake of scandal, and in the U.S., lawmakers are proposing bills at the federal and state level to improve health IT, limit the accessibility of police body camera footage and protect student privacy.

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Sens. Jack Reed, D-RI, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, have introduced the Cybersecurity Disclosure Act of 2015, which would require publicly traded companies to provide more transparency around the cybersecurity knowledge on corporate boards, reports Inside Privacy.

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CRTC, in association with Fasken Martineau, is on Feb. 10 holding a panel discussion about the lessons the regulators have learned about Canada's Anti-Spam Law over the last 18 months.

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Israel's data protection authority, ILITA, has now issued a set of updates and clarifications on data transfers to the U.S. post-Schrems case, stating that "for the time being" it will not "initiate enforcement actions in connection with data transfers" from Israel to the U.S. based on the Safe Harbor arrangement.

Negotiations on a new transatlantic data-transfer agreement appear to be stalling as a deadline for a finalized deal rapidly approaches, The Wall Street Journal reports.