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In this week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup, read about Hong Kong’s recent jail sentence for a violation of the nation’s privacy law, plus comments made by the privacy commissioner about the right to be forgotten in Asia. In Finland, the Information Security Code is now in effect, and the effective date of the Russian law requiring data localization may get bumped up by a year. In the U.S., CISPA is back for try number four, while Wyoming considers a drone privacy bill, North Dakota looks at protecting school district employee data and Missouri considers banning the collection of license-plate data. Also, in Canada, the Harper government has announced plans to introduce an anti-terrorism bill.
LATEST NEWS
The Canadian government has announced plans to introduce an anti-terrorism bill that would likely increase the powers of security agencies, reports Ottawa Citizen.
The Finnish government has passed the Information Society Code, regulating electronic communication and offering sweeping protections to its citizens, reports Inside Counsel.
ZDNet reports Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) has revived the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, a bill that has failed in the past three sessions.
The Missouri Senate is looking at a bill to ban the collection of data from license-plate readers by government agencies, reports The Tenther Blog.
North Dakota is considering a bill that would restrict access to school district employees’ files in the event the employee is charged with a crime, reports The Bismark Tribune.
Oklahoma has altered its healthcare privacy laws, meaning it can now share mental health information with an FBI database, reports HealthIT Security.
The Wyoming House is considering a bill that would block warrantless drone surveillance by law enforcement, reports The Tenther Blog.
ICYMI
Paul Lanois writes in this Privacy Tracker post about the Hong Kong Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data issuing its first-ever sentence of jail time for a violation of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance.
This Privacy Tracker post by Cristos Velasco, CIPP/E, outlines the Mexican Ministry of Economy’s complementary measures aiming to create parameters for self-regulation.
U.S.
Covington Burling's Jeff Kosseff, CIPP/US, writes about Jay Rockefeller's proposed "stringent privacy regulations" on drones in Privacy Perspectives.
EU
EurActiv reports, German Green MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht has indicated the proposed General Data Protection Regulations could be delayed until at least 2016.
Hannah Weller, wife of rock star Paul Weller, has set up a campaign to urge the UK Parliament to make it a crime to publish photos of children without their parents' consent, BBC News reports.
The lower chamber of the Russian Parliament has passed legislation that would change the effective date of Russia's new law requiring local storage of citizens' personal data from September 2016 to September 2015, Hogan Lovells' Chronical of Data Protection reports.
ASIA PACIFIC
Communications Alliance sent its members an email asking how much it will cost them to implement the Australian government's proposed data retention bill, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.